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From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: The Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Cc: kevin@prometheusinc.net
Subject: Re: Disable Autorepeat
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2018 10:57:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cd4ebab1-03b0-28e1-0cca-817f821112c6@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <027401d49edd$0a5fd280$1f1f7780$@prometheusinc.net>

On 28/12/2018 18:42, kevin@prometheusinc.net wrote:
> Is there a way to disable the keyboard autorepeat feature when using
> startxwin??  

Try 'xset r off'

(you may have to install the xset package)

> At this point any xwindows app I use if I press any key it will
> start repeating until the next key pressed and then repeats that key.
> Please help.  Runnig Cygwin on windows 10.

If keys are repeating when they aren't held, this is a bug.

Your report is unclear if this used to work as expected, and has 
changed, or not.

-- 
Jon Turney
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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      reply	other threads:[~2018-12-28 20:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-28 20:44 kevin
2018-12-29 10:57 ` Jon Turney [this message]

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