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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Autorepeat key problems with X11R4
Message-ID: <3475@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 14 Jun 90 19:11:22 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >  Maybe something like ``xset sm <ServerMessage>'' where <ServerMessage>
 >is a string which is to be sent to the server to be interpreted by it.
 >With such an extention it would be trivial to tell the Sun server you
 >wanted it to start autorepeating after 300 miliseconds and to autorepeat
 >every 20 miliseconds via ``xset sm autorepeat=300/20'' or something
 >similar.

Good idea, perhaps, but autorepeat is sort of generic, so I'd want *all*
servers that let you set it at all to use the same extension....