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Haifen
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 Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 3:32 am Post subject: Keyboard repeat rate |
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Hi-
I recently installed a Gentoo 2005.0 system and found upon booting into my newly installed system that they keyboard repeat rate had been slowed way down. Someone gave me a command to add to rc.local to fix it but I was wondering if something earlier in startup was changing the keyboard repeat rate so I could nip the problem in the bud.
Thanks in advance.
-Robin K. |
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cdf
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Joined: 30 Apr 2005
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Location: Southern California
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| Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 12:48 pm Post subject: a few ideas |
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I haven't had to do it lately so I can't give you an example, but I I just found a little app called kbdrate. It looks like you can use that to set things for the command-line. Try man kbdrate on your command line for more info. Or google.
As for X, there are options you can put into the keyboard section of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Do man xorg.conf for more info. Or search google, again.
Also, if you're using KDE, it has a utilty to adjust keyboard rates. Open the Control Center and go to Peripherals => Keyboard. I think Gnome has one too, but I don't have it installed so I can't tell you. |
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thomasvk
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| Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 1:01 pm Post subject: |
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Hi, what I have is I put
| Code: | | kbdrate -r 50 -d 100 |
in ~/.bashrc.
That sets the repeat rate to 50 and the delay to 100. Although the max repeat rate is 30.3 and the min delay 250, I keep hoping. 
I'm sure that there are other ways to do it more globally though. In KDE you can set it somewhere in the control panel. |
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