Confirmed.  The issue is specific to OS X 10.7+ and is related to the 
"lovely" feature whereby pressing a letter will pop up a menu of 
accented versions of that letter for you to choose from.  The workaround 
is to type the following on the command line prior to launching TurboVNC 
Viewer:

   defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

This setting should be persistent, i.e. you don't have to type it each 
time you log in or run the viewer.

You can get back the old behavior by typing

   defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true

I did some googling and wasn't able to find any way to control this 
programmatically from within the Java viewer (it would probably require 
something more low-level, like reading the input events from JNI.  Ugh. 
  No thanks.)


On 9/29/15 10:39 AM, Brett Williams wrote:
> I'm a new user, and I've been unable to find anything that even mentions
> a problem that I am having.
>
> Client:
> Mac OS/X 10.9.5
> TurboVNC Viewer 2.0 (20150714) (Java Hotspot 1.6.0_65 x86_64)
>
> Server:
> CentOS 6.4
> tigerVNC 1.3.0-16
>
>
> The problem is that only certain keys repeat.  Letters do not repeat.
> Backspace, space, arrow keys, and punctuation all repeat.  Furthermore,
> ! repeats, but 1 does not.  It definitely feels like a deliberate decision.
>
> How can I get letters to repeat?  I am a heavy vim user and I especially
> need h, j, k, and l to repeat.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brett

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