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From: mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Keyboard repeat rate
Message-ID: <9103280557.AA15907@lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 28 Mar 91 05:57:19 GMT
Sender: tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
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> How do I change the keyboard repeat rate?  I know about the r xset
> option, but I don't want to turn off autorepeat, I want to modify the
> speed.

The X protocol provides no way to do this.  Servers running on systems
that have the capability typically provide command-line flags at
startup to control it; the MIT Xsun, for example, uses -ar1 and -ar2.

If you have no control over server startup (for example, you're using
an X terminal, or your installation is set up with xdm), you probably
are out of luck.  ("probably" rather than "certainly" because some
servers may implement an extension that provides this capability.  I
know of none, but I've seen only a tiny fraction of the servers in
existence.)

					der Mouse

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