Re: key bounce problem

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Stacey,

Check the following email message for some history:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-04/msg00107.html


Duncan Cragg seems to have reported success using 'xset r off', but you 
may want to read the rest of that thread for clarification.  Hmm... from 
my own comments I think I mentioned that XF86MISC isn't compiled in, so 
it wouldn't seem that 'xset r off' could actually do anything...

I had asked for some help from our guru, Alan Hourihane, but I don't 
remember if he had any insight to offer me.  I didn't notice a reply to 
his message in the thread, but this was during the end of the semester 
for me so I may have been so busy that I didn't notice his response.

Stacey --- If you weren't running (exactly) 'xset r off', could you try 
restoring your Windows keyboard setting and running that command?  Let 
us know the results.  I don't expect it to work, or I suspect that you 
have already tried (you did mention xset r), but give it a shot if you 
haven't tried it.

Any else got some ideas here?

Harold

Stacey Campbell wrote:

> I've been experiencing a fairly annoying key bounce problem with almost
> any X client that takes keyboard input running against XWin on my XP
> box.  The problem rears its ugly head the most when running xterm.
> I searched the archive for this list for "xterm", "debounce", "keyboard",
> etc but couldn't find a message with a solution.
>
> The keyboard code for XWin appears to ignore xset's "r" option, likewise
> it appears to ignore XKEYBOARD args such as -ar1 as detailed on the
> Xserver man page.  The keyboard code doesn't ignore XP's keyboard
> control settings however.  I modified Control Panel->Keyboard->Repeat Delay
> to be one notch slower and the keyboard bounce problems magically went
> away.  This fix obviously modifies the behavior of the keyboard for every
> Windows app, but since I spend 99% of the time inside XFree86 I'm
> quite happy with it. :-)
>
> I don't know if this fix applies to anything other than XP, but I
> thought I should subscribe to this list and get this message into the
> archive in case someone else runs into the same problem down the road.
>
> Stacey
> http://www.pigtailproductions.com/stacey/