[comp.sys.sun] What are the autorepeat timing values under SunView?

ted@cs.brown.edu (07/06/90)

I'm a long time SunView user/programmer who now finds that I must use X
occasionally.  Under X it annoys me to no end that the autorepeat is too
fast.  According to the documentation, Xsun can be started as follows:

	Xsun -ar1 milliseconds -ar2 milliseconds

where the two milliseconds values control the behavior of the keyboard
autorepeat.  The first specifies the delay before autorepeat is engaged.
The second specifies the delay between generated characters while
autorepeat is in effect.  Does anyone know or know where to find what
these values are under SunView?  I'm quite used to the SunView behavior of
autorepeat and would like to setup my X environment to behave the same
way.

Tony Davis
ted@cs.brown.edu

coleman@uunet.uu.net (Mike Coleman) (07/07/90)

ted@cs.brown.edu writes:
>I'm a long time SunView user/programmer who now finds that I must use X
>occasionally.  Under X it annoys me to no end that the autorepeat is too
>fast.  According to the documentation, Xsun can be started as follows:

>	Xsun -ar1 milliseconds -ar2 milliseconds

At least in the current version it's user-modifiable; previously you were
stuck with this behavior.  I can only guess that no one at Sun who uses
Xsun knows how to touch type!  ;-)

For what it's worth, I use 550 and 40.  Anything greater than 999 will
cause the server to ungracefully crash...

P.S.  On a slow day you can try 1 and 1.

"The views expressed within solely my own."             (coleman@twinsun.com)
I'm going to write an object-oriented extension and call it "ADD 1 TO COBOL."