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From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Can keyboard auto-repeat timing be modified by users?
Message-ID: <9008232219.AA05991@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 23 Aug 90 22:19:35 GMT
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> Is there any way a non-programmer can modify this timing??
> [Referring to the auto-repeat parameters.]  With "xset" you can turn
> it off, but they like to have the auto-repeat feature, just with a
> longer threshhold...

The core X protocol does not define a way to do this.  The MIT R4
server provides command-line switches to change the rate and delay
values; presumably others do as well.  An extension could (and IMO
should) be written to permit manipulation of these values via xset.
(I probably won't do it; the current mechanism is good enough to keep
me happy.)

					der Mouse

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