GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 83174
Keyaboard "Repeat speed" option not functioning
Last modified: 2009-08-15 18:40:50 UTC
Testing from CVS head 27th May using Metacity wm. The "Repeat speed" option for the Keyboard capplet does not appear to be working. No changes in repeat speed are visible when typing in terminal if changes made to the "Repeat speed" for keayboard repeat rate in the keyboard capplet.
Jacob: can you take a look at this, please? Thanks. [It works fine on linux, so I'm assuming it must be solaris specific.]
Please don't take this the wrong way, but I suspect that this is user error. After changing the repeat speed use xset in the terminal to see if anything changed. The code doing the adjustment is fairly trivial and uses straight X, it is unlikely to be a portability problem.
I've just had a quick look through the man pages for xset and I can't find any option that allows you to list the current "keyboard auto-repeat speed" or set the "keyboard auto-repeat speed" - I can see the "r" option to set on/off auto-repeat. If the auto-repeat speed is changed in the Keyboard capplet the change is reflected in the capplet itself BUT is not reflected in the terminal when repeating the same keyboard character. Is the change in speed v. subtle?
My humble apologies. I was confused. The repeat rate is indeed set differently for xfree86 and solaris. For this to work you need to have the XKB extension enabled, and working. There are aparently some patches available.
I should be more specific here. There are patches for the Solaris X server to fix XKB. My personal bet is that we are going to be hit with alot of these. The best solution for users would be to use the sun AccessX extension if it is available but getting that to compile will be very ugly given that it assumes that it is being compiled in the X server, and uses some headers that are not globally installed.
if you can still reproduce this with a working XKEYBOARD extension on solaris, reopen this. otherwise, this is due to bugs in XKEYBOARD
hi jacob, luis, would it be ok if i re-open this to track the progress with the solaris patch in question 'cause i don't think it is available yet... cheers shane
if it's not a bug in gnome it shouldn't be here. when the patch comes out, if it doesn't work then feel free to reopen this bug report. otherwise, you should probably track the issue in sun's bug tracker.
closing