GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 78013
auto repeat settings use Xfree86 sepecific calls
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Reproducibility: Always Version : 1.99.6 Tested on Linux as well as Solaris 2.9 64 bit platforms. The problem is present in both the places. Procedure: 1. Start up Gnome control center. Double click on the option 'Preferences: Keyboard' to open the Keyboard preferences dialog window. 2. Change the speed in the 'Repeat speed' option and delay before repeating in the 'Delay before repeating' option and try typing the same key on any text editor everytime after changeing the speed and the delay before repeating. No change is noticed in the speen of repeatation everytime after the speed is changed.
*** Bug 78014 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Damn. Looks like the settings daemon is using Xfree86 specific calls to change the repeat rate. We helpfully silently ignore them if they are not available. I'll replace with something from the XKB extension.
Fixed to default to xkb, and fall back to xfree86 both are checked for viability first.
Jody: are 78015 and 78016 the same basic bug as this? or no?
They would not have been affected by my patch that was strictly related to autorepeat speed. Both of those bugs smell like sever mis configuration rather than gnome issues. They should use xset -q to see if the changes are being applied to the server.
The problem still persists in the latest source taken on May 5th. After running xset -q the status of auto repeat shows "off" even after setting the repeat speed to short. Hence I am reopening the bug.
Is this on solaris ? Is XKB enabled ? If so you need to have the latest and greatest xserver. We currently only support setting the repeat rate via XKB or xfree86 specific calls (in that order) if XKB is non functional we're up a creek.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 80325 ***
The bug still persists in Solaris. I tested it on the source code taken on 14th of May. Change in the speed of repetition of a character is not noticeable on Solaris when changes are made in the repetition speed. However it is noticeable on Linux. Hence I am reopening the bug.
There were 2 portions to this bug. 1) The autorepeat was not being enabled/disabled This is fixed. 2) The repeat rate and delay were not changing. On solaris this requires patches to the X server. That portion is a duplicate, please do not reopen this bug.
I tested the delay rate change in the beta 2 build. It is still not working. May I know the bug id of the bug which is a duplicate of this problem.
It is part of the generic XKB support is required set of bugs associated with the AccessX functionality.