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Re: Keyboard auto-repeat defaults when using 'xwin -query <host>'


On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 02:31:58PM +0100, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> Chris Green wrote:
> 
> > auto repeat delay:  100    repeat rate:  10
> > ....
> >
> > That auto repeat delay is much too short.
> 
> XWin tries to set the repeat rate to something similar to the windows
> repeat rate. This is noted in the configfile.
> 
> Maybe the session scripts of the linux host set the repeat rate to a bogus
> value.
> 
But the problem only occurs when I connect to the remote system using
cygwin's xwin, when I use my commercial X-Win32 X server I get the
default keyboard set-up that I expect.


> You can verify this by starting xwin without the query paramter and run
> "DISPLAY=:0.0 xset -q" from windows. This should print the default setting.
> 
No. locally I appear to get the same problem too.

-- 
Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)


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