Repeated keys in GTK1 apps

[edscott wilson garcia]

On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 18:58, Matt Price wrote:
> 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...

At least with Toshiba laptops, it is a known hardware problem. A fix is
accomplished by using accessx (/usr/local/bin/ax +bouncekeys bouncedelay
15) or xkbdset (/usr/X11R6/bin/xkbset bo 15 && /usr/X11R6/bin/xkbset exp
=bo). Maybe the problem is spreading...


> 
> matt
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