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I use to have an X config many years ago, but one of the X upgrades |
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didn't like it and I had a lot of trouble trying to get it working |
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again, and then I found the new X was happy without any config file |
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(/etc/X11/xorg.conf), so I have been running that way for some time. |
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But the upgrade to 1.5, I think, along with evdev, has messed with the |
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mapping of several keys -- ALT and WINDOW on both left and right, and |
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MENU on the right side only, on my US pc105 keyboard. (I hope those |
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names are good enough. I don't know what the official names are.) I |
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used to have the single MENU key configured to control the window |
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manager (fvwm), but now either of the WINDOW keys does that, and MENU |
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is passed on thru to programs. The WINDOW and ALT keys used to be |
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swapped. |
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I guess I need some xkbcomp or xkbsetmap command to change this, but I |
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cannot decipher the man pages nor find any decent examples. |
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Another change is the keyboard repeat rate. I can stop autorepeat: |
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xset r off |
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I can turn it on |
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xset r rate |
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But I can't control either the initial delay or the repeat rate: |
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xset r rate 5000 10 (ought to be noticeable!) |
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xset r rate 350 25 (what I used to set) |
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The worst of it is that it buffers up the keys and keeps on sending |
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them out long after I have taken my fingers off. For instance, on |
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some web pages, Firefox can't scroll as fast as the keyboard wants it |
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to. If I hit an arrow key over and over as individual key presses, it |
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stops scrolling as soon as I stop banging the arrow key, but if I hold |
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down the arrow key, X's repeat function fills the key buffer with |
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arrow keys and the browser keeps scrolling long after I have taken my |
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finger off the key. Is there some way to correct this? This is not |
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the repeat rate because the default rate is good enough in editors or |
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on the command line. But the browser and X used to work together |
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better before, and the browser knew when my finger came off the arrow |
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key. |
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