How to disable repeat keys on some keys (not all keys)

[Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:36:16AM +0800, Shenli Zhu wrote:
> Sometimes when I release the key, it still repeat keys, I guess it's a
> hardware problem. So I want to allow 4 direction keys(left, right, up,
> down) to repeat, and disable others?
> 
> But keyboard preference only allow enable/disable repeat keys on all
> keys. How to enable/disable some keys?

You can enable/disable autorepeat for individual keys with

  xset r keycode
  xset -r keycode

Use xev to find out the keycodes of the keys you're interested in.

Marius Gedminas
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