[lug] Key repeat in X

[Ferdinand Schmid]

Rob Riggs wrote:
> 
> I stay logged in to X for weeks at a time. I've been logged in to the
> same session for over 10 days now. And over long periods of time my key
> repeat stops working. It just happened to me for the first time during
> this session. The way to correct this (in the short term) is to run
> "xset r on", but this is getting quite annoying, especially so since it
> appears that the problem becomes more frequent the longer I remain
> logged in.
Are you running gnome, kde, twm, ..?  I only lock my screen when I leave
and have never seen this problem.  But I also know that at least KDE
does its own thing regarding key repeats and other keyboard settings.

Ferdinand
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