On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 03:17:48PM +0100, Klaasjan Brand wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 13:59, Wade Hampton wrote:
[SNIPPAGE]
> > > For example, on my laptop it stopped repeating when I unsuspended
> > > it this morning -- on Friday it worked fine. The computer is an IBM A31p
> > > with RH 8.0 loaded. X was running.
> > > --
> >
> > No idea; just a "me too" here. I noticed the same here yesterday;
> > standard desktop system (p3, intel chipset). Setting the keyboard
> > repeat rate with xset worked a while, but the repeat "disappeared"
> > again..
>
> Interesting, but I have the exact opposite problem, which started with
> 7.3 and continues with 8.0. Sometimes one keypress will spawn several
> of the same keys. Say in Mozilla, one page down press, and it acts
> like 5 or so were pressed. Playing around with xset seems to help, but
> I haven't found the magic combination.
<AOL>
Me too - to both. On my first gnome session after boot up I have no key
repeat. If I then log out and in again, the key repeat works again, but
sometimes too well, as Hal noted. I've been going mad trying to either
fix it or find a pattern - I'm glad to see it's not something odd on my
system.
--
Cheers! (Relax...have a homebrew)
Neil
