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erlkoenig

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Registered: 2013-01-08

Posts: 33

Need help tweaking a certain part of Openbox

Hi,
I upgraded from Statler to Waldorf, and noticed that the delay before registering multiple key presses is too low.

What I mean is the following: When I hold down a key, say, the downward arrow key, the OS waits for about 0.2s before registering it as several key presses. Since humans can't press and just as fast release a key, it has some tolerance towards long key presses, and registers them as one rather than many. On the new OS, this time of waiting is too low. So when, for example, I press Super + X to shutdown my computer, I hold the keys so long that several shutdown windows appear, even though I only wanted one.

I hope I made it clear what I mean by this. Can anybody tell me how to increase the delay/tolerance time?

Last edited by erlkoenig (2013-01-14 22:36:42)

rkwurth

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Registered: 2012-09-04

Posts: 365

Re: Need help tweaking a certain part of Openbox

Check ~/.config/openbox/autostart. I believe the "xset r rate" command has something to do with this.

erlkoenig

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Registered: 2013-01-08

Posts: 33

Re: Need help tweaking a certain part of Openbox

Thanks, but that didn't work. As a test, I put the following into .config/openbox/autostart:

xset r rate 5000

The repetition rate is as fast as before.
Edit: I spoke too soon, the above does work somehow. Thanks for you help, rkwurth!

Last edited by erlkoenig (2013-01-14 22:55:19)

rkwurth

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Registered: 2012-09-04

Posts: 365

Re: Need help tweaking a certain part of Openbox

Hey you're welcome. I remembered seeing that in there, but I've never done anything with it.