Subject: Re: was I asleep when keyboard repeat went away in xterm?
To: NetBSD Current Users <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Holger Weiss <lists@jhweiss.de>
List: current-users
Date: 05/20/2005 13:51:13
* Thomas Klausner <wiz@NetBSD.org> [2005-05-20 09:54]:
> On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 09:23:38AM +0200, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> > Maybe it was always broken, but that the repetition in ukbd masked
> > a bug in X?
>
> Another interesting point:
> In the non-repeating state, xset q says:
> Keyboard Control:
>   auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00000000
>   auto repeat delay:  660    repeat rate:  25
>   auto repeating keys:  00ffffffdffffbbf
>                         fadfffdfffdfe5ef
>                         ffffffffffffffff
>                         ffffffffffffffff
>
> If I change the auto repeat delay ("xset r rate") to something
> else than 660, it starts repeating, but when I change it back
> to 660, it stops repeating again. E.g. all of 25 (don't try that
> at home), 659, 661, 600, and 330 work, but 660 does not.

Same thing here with Xsun on NetBSD/sparc64 2.0_STABLE using a normal
type 5 keyboard. This has been reported in PR/28908.

Holger

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