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gnome-settings-daemon package

  1. Bug #278078
  2. Comment #85

Comment 85 for bug 278078

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In , Rajeev V. Pillai (rajeevvp) wrote :

The left and down arrow keys do not repeat for me either. The same arrow keys on the number pad work fine, however. The problem started with xf86-input-evdev-2.1.99.1. Versions upto xf86-input-evdev-2.1.3 work just fine. For the later versions, I've had to add the following commands to my ~/.xinitrc:

xset r 113 # left-arrow key repeats
xset r 116 # down-arrow key repeats also

The particular version of the xorg-server being used does not seem to matter. I'm using 1.6.1. My keyboard is an PS/2 TVS Champ keyboard with 107 keys, model no. KB-1808. The relevant xorg.conf lines on my PC:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "Keyboard0"
        Driver "evdev"
        Option "CoreKeyboard"
        Option "Device" "/dev/input/event0"
# Option "Name" "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
        Option "AutoRepeat" "250 50"
        Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
        Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
EndSection

In comment #31, Raven Morris suggested using:

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option "AutoAddDevices" "Off"
EndSection

to fix the problem. This does not work for me.

Thanks,
Rajeev