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From: wohler@spam.istc.sri.com (Bill Wohler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: key repeat rate in X11R3 on sun3's and 4's
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Date: 26 Nov 88 19:37:04 GMT
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Gilbert Harman writes:
>Using X11R3 on sun 3's and 4's, I find that the key repeat
>rate is much faster than on the previous version.  Too fast.
>Is there a way to adjust this rate without just turning off
>key repeating?

  too fast?

  bob, actually i think the rate was changed from 100 to 50
  milliseconds between the two releases.  however, 50 is still too
  slow--again i changed AUTOREPEAT_DELAY in server/ddx/sun/sun.h to
  20.

						--bw