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From: jg@jg.crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Key repeat under X
Keywords: key repeat X
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.125847.15278@crl.dec.com>
Date: 12 Mar 91 12:58:47 GMT
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In article <1991Mar11.165600.3792@odin.diku.dk> harbo@diku.dk (Klaus Harbo) writes:
>We have several DECstations, and I want to turn key repeat on for some of the
>keys above arrow-keys, but I have been unable to recover any information about
>this. Note that it is *not* the general turning on or off of key repeat, but
>turning it on or off for specific keys on the keyboard. 
>
The way the keyboard is driven in the current device drivers makes it
very difficult to do what you want; the keyboard is an arcane beast.

The new multi-screen device driver that will start appearing as multi-screen
support happens drives the keyboard in a different way and allows full control
of auto-repeat on a per key basis; the "xset" command will then allow you
to control each key.  This driver also replaces the current device
driver on the DS2100/DS3100 in Ultrix 4.2.

So the best I can tell you right now is "fixed in future release".
				- Jim Gettys
				  Digital Equipment Corporation
				  Cambridge Research Lab.


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