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From: Anselmo-Ed@yale.edu (Ed Anselmo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: How to change SPARC keyboard key repeat delay?
Keywords: Miscellaneous
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Date: 13 Nov 89 21:07:24 GMT
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> On 6 Nov 89, wargaski@accuvax.nwu.edu (Robert E. Wargaski Jr.) said:

Robert> X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 189, message 10 of 22
Robert> A SPARCstation user wants to increase the delay between the
Robert> time a key is depressed and the time the repeat begins.  I
Robert> have RTFM, but am unable to find information of this sort in
Robert> the tastefully boxed set of SPARC manuals.

If you're using X windows, it's fairly easy to hack in some changes to the
Xsun server to allow users to choose their own autorepeat initiate and
autorepeat delay times.  I would have liked to make this an xset-able
parameter, but this would have been a bit more work, so for now it's only
doable via the command line.

I can provide diffs to the MIT server (R3 + patches 1-10 + purdue 2.1) if
anyone's interested.