Repeated keys in GTK1 apps

[edscott wilson garcia]

On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 04:51, Alexandre Aractingi wrote:
> Le ven 19/12/2003 à 11:27, Alexandre Aractingi a écrit :
> > Hi,
> > I noticed a strange behavior with Evolution 1.2.4 and
> > multi-gnome-terminal (both of these are GTK1 apps) within XFce4,
> > sometimes the keys I hit are repeated several times, (giving a result
> > like this: thiiiiiiiiis). The problem never occured in Gnome, can it be
> > related to XFce4?
> 
> Update: the problem also happens in Galeon, which is GTK2, so it's
> probably not related to GTK1...
> Thanks,

Verify your keyboard preferences with xfce-setting-show. There are
fields for the repeat delay and speed. That might be the problem.