Repeated keys in GTK1 apps

[Matt Price]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 08:59:16AM -0600, edscott wilson garcia wrote:
> 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.

y'know, I'm getting similar problems on several machines with different
key repeat settings.  I hadn't thought to blame xfce!  but this sounds
like a pattern...

matt