How to disable repeat keys on some keys (not all keys)
Roger Futter
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Sun Sep 19 22:36:52 UTC 2010
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:04 +0300, "Marius Gedminas" <marius at pov.lt>
wrote:
> 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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It just occurred to me that I had a similar problem, which was caused by
a
low battery in a wireless keyboard. Worth a check.
Roger F.
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