#1 2023-03-30 02:58:33

taberacci

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Registered: 2023-03-24

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[SOLVED] Keyboard rate a bit too fast

How could I slow down the typematic rate of the keyboard?

In some programs the faster rate is appreciated. But I'm having a problem with using a Windows app with Wine in which it doesn't reliably register CONTROL-C and other such keypresses. They aren't assigned to anything else on the system, and I'm not sure if those misses have to do with this problem I'm reporting.

The typematic rate is "normal" with other Linux OS installations I have, regardless of D.E. or W.M. such as Q4OS and Spiral GNOME (both based on Debian), and others like EndeavourOS LXQt and Fedora MATE (not based on Debian).

I have an 11-year-old Hewlett-Packard laptop with Intel "Sandy Bridge" CPU, which has 2 cores. I was typing this on Spiral KDE.

$ inxi -C -S -x
System:    Host: hp2000pc Kernel: 6.0.0-0.deb11.6-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1 
           Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.20.5 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 
CPU:       Info: Dual Core model: Intel Pentium B980 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Sandy Bridge 
           rev: 7 L2 cache: 2 MiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 bogomips: 9578 
           Speed: 798 MHz min/max: 800/2400 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 798 2: 800 

I dare not use "kbdrate" program on terminal because alone, that doesn't report.

Last edited by taberacci (2023-04-03 11:12:37)

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brontosaurusrex

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard rate a bit too fast

ChatGPT says:
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To adjust the keyboard rate in Linux using the command line interface (CLI), you can use the xset command.

To make the keyboard rate slower, use the following command:

xset r rate <delay> <rate>

where <delay> is the number of milliseconds to delay before repeating a key, and <rate> is the number of repetitions per second. For example, to set a delay of 300 milliseconds and a rate of 20 repetitions per second, you would use the following command:

xset r rate 300 20

To make the keyboard rate faster, you can decrease the delay and/or increase the rate. For example, to set a delay of 100 milliseconds and a rate of 30 repetitions per second, you would use the following command:

xset r rate 100 30

Note that these settings will only apply to the current session, and will be reset when you log out or restart your system. To make these changes persistent, you can add the xset command to your system startup scripts.
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Not sure if this will apply to wine.

Last edited by brontosaurusrex (2023-03-30 08:42:25)

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taberacci

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Registered: 2023-03-24

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard rate a bit too fast

Thanks for help. I found the line in

~/.config/bunsen/autostart

and simply turned it into comment.

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johnraff

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Re: [SOLVED] Keyboard rate a bit too fast

^That would drop you back to the default settings, whatever they were. An alternative would be to leave the line, but edit the values:

## Set keyboard settings - 250 ms delay and 25 cps (characters per second) repeat rate.
## Adjust the values according to your preferances.
xset r rate 250 25

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