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From: jha@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Jamie Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Beginner's Question, X11 keyboard characteristics
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Date: 9 Feb 89 16:28:45 GMT
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Reply-To: jha@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Jamie Andrews)
Organization: Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh U
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     X10 has recently become unsupported at my site & I have
started using X11 (the wave of the future :-)).  However, the
Sun keyboard (or rather, some level of the interpretation of
the keyboard inputs) acts in various annoying ways.  I would
greatly appreciate some help BY EMAIL.

o The repeat rate is very high, and keys seem to repeat after
  a shorter delay time sometimes (on some Suns?).

o (THE MOST ANNOYING) When I am holding down one key after
  pressing it, and then "roll over" onto another, the second
  key does not repeat (as it does on every other keyboard I can
  ever remember, *including* the Suns under X10!).

     This second problem does not sound like a big deal, but it
is:  when I am in vi or some similar video game (:-)), I often
go "jjjlllllll" to go "down a few lines and across a few
columns".  Under X11, this ends up as: "jjjl"... one... two...
notice cursor isn't moving... AARGGH... lift up "l" key finger
and put it down again... "llllll".  Not amusing.

     I know that this is conceivably a soft thing, because
keyboard rollover characteristics are definable for many
terminals (though I hadn't heard of this particular one).

     My question is if anyone knows what I can do about these
(magic file / setting somewhere? code hacking?), particularly
the second problem.

     Please don't tell me to not use vi (:-)), and please
RESPOND BY EMAIL as I do not read this newsgroup.  Thank you
in advance for any help you can give.

--Jamie.
  jha@lfcs.ed.ac.uk
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