Re: Keyboard autorepeat settings [Was: Updated: XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-22]

[Takuma Murakami <murakami at ipl dot t dot u-tokyo dot ac dot jp>]

It is my mistake that "silently" changing the default
behaviour.  I apologize and add some comments to show
my intention.

Harold L Hunt II wrote:
> It might be nice, but the Windows autorepeat caused problems with 
> systems running in Japanese... so they need the XKB autorepeat 
> functionality, since the Windows autorepeat needs to be disabled for them.

The Windows autorepeat is not crucial to Japanese
language handling.  Disabling it was a part of the patch
to improve mode key states synchronization.  Sorry for
confusing you, Harold.

I disabled it for the two reasons below:

1)  Having both Windows and XKB autorepeat breaks the
state synchronization.  For example, if we press Caps
Lock for a while, Windows toggles the state exactly once
but XKB repeatedly toggles the state since it receives
many KeyPress events generated by Windows autorepeat.

2)  Having two schemes for autorepeat looks not so
good as Harold said.  Adoption of XKB layer is just my
choice.  Because we are using an X server, it is natural
for me to configure it using X Window's manner (i.e.
xset).  Please consider keymaps; we set keymaps via
xmodmap, setxkbmap and/or XF86Config file -- all those
are X Window's manner.

Anyway, now we seem to find a better solution to get
default values from Windows and enable Windows autorepeat
if XKB is disabled.  It looks that Alexander is implementing
the features, is it right?  I really appreciate him.

Takuma Murakami (murakami@ipl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp)