autorepeat keyPress only

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Wed Nov 22 07:35:31 PST 2006


Gideon wrote:
> //Hi all,
> 
> I'm new to Xorg and I found the codes are quite hard to follow.
> Any suggestions to address the problem would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> I figured the Xserver will filter the keyPress event from the keypad
> until a keyRelease is received, but I want it to repeat keyPress only
> as in the following:
> 
> keyPress/keyPress/keyPress/......../keyRelease
> 
> I am using version X11R6.8.2 so I couldn't find the function
> ///XkbSetDetectableAutoRepeat or codes follow ///XPeekEvent regarding
> to this post:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-June/015820.html

XkbSetDetectableAutoRepeat is what you need, and it's been in libX11
since X11R6.4, so look again.

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