[SOLVED]Keyboard repeat rate

When I startx the keyboard repeat delay increases which is very annoying. How do I change the keyboard repeat delay to be just as fast as the tty in xorg?
Last edited by zowki (2009-12-03 04:12:06)

karol wrote:
I don't know if this is the thing you're after, but you can add
xset r rate [delay] [rate] f.e. 'xset r rate 200 25'
to your .xinitrc.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=69759
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=545568
This works! Thank you very much. I'm a repeat delay junkie so I set it to 150ms.

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Last edited by meqif (2009-04-12 14:31:52)

Procyon wrote:
Explicitly define your keyboard in xorg.conf and don't use evdev but kbd.
You just need to add to Section "ServerLayout"
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EndSection
Maybe one of those CoreKeyboard definitions is redundant.
For that I'd have to also add Option "AutoAddDevices" "off" to ServerLayout.
That's not really the problem, I was using evdev with xorg 1.5.3 and everything was fine. What I'd like to know is, what was the default delay and repeat rate in xorg 1.5.3, so I can set it in xorg 1.6.0 (with xset or something).
Thanks for your suggestion, though.
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[SOLVED]Keyboard repeat rate

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