On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 00:07, david <da...@kenpro.com.au> wrote: > I've noticed that the cursor response is getting sluggish - for instance > when holding down an arrow key in a text document, the cursor used to fly > across the screen, but now it seems to have got elderly and reluctant. Half > it's old speed. > > I've tried all the usual things.... wd40, incantations to Ubuntu gods and > kicking the box, but to no avail. Top shows 97% idle most of the time. It > doesn't appear to have anything to do with accessibility option settings. > Any suggestions?
Hi David, Have you tried resetting the keyboard repeat rate? kbdrate should be the command you're looking for. Sane settings are (apparently) `kbdrate -r 30 -d 250`, and I think you need to run it as root (sorry can't test now). Cheers, h -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
