bpowell@OSC.EDU (Brian Powell) (08/24/90)
Hello,
We are in the process of trying to convince our workstation
users to switch from SunView to X11. The benefits of X11 are clear and
most people find the transition pretty smooth. One question that has
arisen though, is that under SunView the keyboard auto-repeat timing (ie
the time you must hold a key down before it starts to auto-repeat) is kind
of slow (maybe 1/2 second). In X, this timing is much faster and some
users find themselves making many more typos because of this. Is there
any way a non-programmer can modify this timing?? With "xset" you can
turn it off, but they like to have the auto-repeat feature, just with a
longer threshhold...
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Yes, I see the answer is in the Xsun man page.
Sorry for asking...
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> Is there any way a non-programmer can modify this timing?? > [Referring to the auto-repeat parameters.] With "xset" you can turn > it off, but they like to have the auto-repeat feature, just with a > longer threshhold... The core X protocol does not define a way to do this. The MIT R4 server provides command-line switches to change the rate and delay values; presumably others do as well. An extension could (and IMO should) be written to permit manipulation of these values via xset. (I probably won't do it; the current mechanism is good enough to keep me happy.) der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu