Logs on 2026-03-12 (liberachat/#xmonad)
| 02:15:05 | <haskellbridge> | <iqubic (she/her)> So, for some reason, my laptop's built-in keyboard has stopped doing key-repeat. No matter how much I hold down a key, Linux only ever registers it a single time. |
| 02:15:08 | <haskellbridge> | Is there something wrong with my laptop and/or my Linux settings? |
| 02:33:34 | <geekosaur> | try: xset r on |
| 02:33:59 | <geekosaur> | (or "xset q" to see what the settings including key repeat settings are) |
| 02:43:28 | <geekosaur> | it's also possible that the repeat delay is set really high (like, minutes or even hours) or that the repeat mask has been cleared somehow (all 0s in "auto repeating keys", which is likely to be rather difficult to fix) |
| 02:58:11 | <geekosaur> | (fwiw the repeat delay is in ms. if it somehoww got set to MAX_INT, that's around 23 days) |
| 02:58:20 | <geekosaur> | (if I got the math right) |
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| 20:48:26 | <haskellbridge> | <iqubic (she/her)> I don't know what caused this issue, but I do remember switching to a TTY and seeing that key repeat worked there. And then I rebooted my machine, and things went back to normal. |
| 20:51:55 | <haskellbridge> | <iqubic (she/her)> The last thing I remember doing before it broke was running a SNES emulator with WINE. |
| 20:54:14 | <geekosaur> | right, tty and X11 (and wayland) key repeats are distinct, with different settings |
| 20:54:28 | <geekosaur> | wine might possibly disable or more likely take over key repeat |
| 20:55:13 | <haskellbridge> | <iqubic (she/her)> I know that. I switched to the TTY to check if key repeat being broken was a hardware thing or a software thing. |
| 20:56:14 | <haskellbridge> | <iqubic (she/her)> The WINE thing is new to me though. Is there a way to change the autorepeat settings with xset? |
| 20:56:28 | <geekosaur> | yes |
| 20:56:39 | <geekosaur> | I told you how to turn it on earlier |
| 20:57:04 | <haskellbridge> | <iqubic (she/her)> auto repeat: on, auto repeat delay: 660, repeat rate: 25 |
| 20:57:38 | <haskellbridge> | <iqubic (she/her)> Yes, I saw how to turn it on. Is there a way to manually change the other two values without completely killing X? |
| 21:02:25 | <geekosaur> | e.g. xset r 500 50 |
| 21:02:43 | <geekosaur> | (xset's parameter parsing is idiosyncratic and primitive) |
| 21:09:37 | <haskellbridge> | <iqubic (she/her)> Cool beans! |
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