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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Autorepeat key problems with X11R4
Message-ID: <3492@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 16 Jun 90 19:11:29 GMT
References: <61614@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> <JANSSEN.90Jun14175659@holmes.parc.xerox.com> <61747@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>The goal is simply to provide a way to set server parameters and
>options at run time instead of only at start up.  The desire to set
>the keyboard autorepeat rate is one example.

Unless there are keyboards that do auto-repeat in a fashion sufficiently
different from the fashion with which I'm familiar (i.e., with a
parameter that specifies the "autorepeate delay" and another that
specifies the "autorepeat rate"), the request to set this should *not*
be left up to vendors to customize, so that I could run the same
parameter-setting program against several severs.

>  On the other hand, if someone were to implement a full Display PostScript
>extension to the X server which allowed the setting of server parameters as
>a side benefit I wouldn't complain at all,

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