Setting keyboard autorepeat rate with xkb?
Hi, In commit ae630aef17185dd8d2c23d0eb1b3287fa6e26268, Peter Hutterer writes: Really remove autorepeat. This strips all autorepeat from the keyboard driver. If you need autorepeat, use XKB. So I've been trying to find the place in XKB to set the keyboard autorepeat rate. So far, I've been unsuccessful. Google searches turn up lots of places that tell me to use xset, but somehow this seems like a giant step backward. And if the commit message points me to XKB, there must be a way. Can anyone give me any pointers? Thanks, - Chris ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Setting keyboard autorepeat rate with xkb?
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 05:26:26PM -0400, Marty Jack wrote: XkbGetControls( , XkbRepeatKeysMask, ); xkb_desc-ctrls-repeat_interval = ; XkbSetControls( , XkbRepeatKeysMask,) Advice to use xset is a big hint because you can look at its code to find the programmatic way. Thanks. I wasn't looking for the programmatic way, though. I assumed that if a config-file based autorepeat option was taken away, then there would be a config-file based option available in xkb. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the role of xkb. There appears to be lots of config file support for multiple keyboard layouts, etc, but none for autorepeat. But from the above answer, it would appear that from the admin's point of view, xset is the only way? I find this so stunning that I'm apparently asking dumb questions on the mailing list. :-) Is xset really the only way? Thanks, - Chris ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Setting keyboard autorepeat rate with xkb?
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 06:09:35PM -0400, Marty Jack wrote: Your average desktop environment has a way to configure it per user with persistent storage for the value. If you aren't running a desktop environment, you would run xset somewhere in the startup script for the user session. There's always taking the default, which seems sensible enough to me for ordinary usage. Thanks for your patience. True, if I were using a desktop environment, this would be a no-brainer. I was just surprised that this setting got moved away from a consistent location the same everywhere, to a location that depends on what desktop or distro you use. But xset will do. :-) Thanks again, - Chris ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: Setting keyboard autorepeat rate with xkb?
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 03:31:37PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: The X server command line options -ardelay -arinterval should still work across all drivers distros though - see Xserver(1) for details. Thanks. I didn't know about those. Is there any way to specify these options in xorg.conf, or similar file? As far as I can tell from the manpage, these are command line only. - Chris ___ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
