On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:43:49PM -0400, Paul Vojta wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:20:03AM -0500, tsuraan wrote: > > > I am not sure but xset has a [r rate delay [rate]], would that be any > > > help ? > > > > I believe that's for the autorepeat rate, so the rate/delay tells X > > that once the key is held down for <delay> ms, it should start firing > > that key at <rate> events/s (my units might be wrong though). That's > > sort of the inverse of the problem I have, which is that the keyboard > > seems to be sending a bunch of keypress events really quickly for a > > short period of time. > > > I have a possibly related problem. > > Sometimes I get keystrokes occurring via autorepeat even when no keys are > pressed. They stop when I hit any other key (even shift). > > I've looked into it, and found out that the problem is that the keyboard > (or control chip) is not sending the "break" code until the next key is hit. > Then, since X apparently keeps track of which keys are pressed on its own, > I get the repeated keystrokes. > > Is there a way of telling X to just use the autorepeat provided by the > hardware?
not anymore. we've removed this in server 1.6 (iirc) because that and software autorepeat had some weird side-effects. sometimes a key would start hw-repeating before sw-repeat kicked in, causing bursts of keys. and iirc we had the same problem with keys not getting released correctly. that was a time when the whole input system was in a turmoil so it's possible that we could fix this now but I still expect it to be a rather large (and nasty to test) amount of work to get selective hw repeats. Cheers, Peter > The hardware in my case is a Dell XPS M1330 laptop, purchased late 2007. > The problem most often occurs when I release two (or more) keys at very > close to the same time. For example, I switch Control and CapsLock > (ctrl:swapcaps), and to exit a browser I hit Ctrl-W. Since the keys are > so close to each other, I can just use two fingers on the same hand, and > by habit I do it quickly. Then I move over to a terminal window and get > a bunch of w's coming out. > > --Paul Vojta, vo...@math.berkeley.edu > _______________________________________________ > xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support > Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg > Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > Your subscription address: peter.hutte...@who-t.net > _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
