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From: ekberg@osage.csc.ti.COM
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Subject: supressing auto-repeat
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Date: 8 Jun 89 20:01:03 GMT
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   Date: 6 Jun 89 15:40:10 GMT
   From: diomedes!wasg@rice.edu  (Eric Salituro)
   Organization: Rice University, Houston
   References: <GRUNWALD.89May30174927@flute.cs.uiuc.edu>
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   In article <GRUNWALD.89May30174927@flute.cs.uiuc.edu>
   grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu writes: 

   >Does anyone know how to suppress auto-repeat within the context of a
   >single application? I have various accelerators which make no sense
   >if you're using auto-repeat.
   >

   I have a similar question, but sort of opposite. Is there a way to
   alter the delay before auto-repeating keypresses? (lengthen or
   shorten?) I realize that I may have to alter the source, but if
   someone can give a clue, it would help.

   We are running X11R3 on a Sun 3.


We just went through that last week at our site.  The only way to change
the autorepeat rate values is to change the server/ddx/sun/sun.h file.
There are two constants defined there:

#define AUTOREPEAT_INITIATE	(200)		/* milliseconds */
#define AUTOREPEAT_DELAY	(50)		/* milliseconds */

We changed the 200 to 500 which matches the value for a VT100.  Many
people at our site noted that 0.2 sec is too fast -- especially when
pressing the D key to delete mail messages.

After changing the sun.h file you will need to rebuild the server.  A
better approach, would be to add a switch to the server which would
allow a user to pass in a value for this when they start up the server.

I have been using this version of the server and am quite happy with the
autorepeat initiate setting.

  -- tom (aisle C-4L), ekberg@csc.ti.com