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KBDRATE(8)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							KBDRATE(8)

NAME

       kbdrate - reset the keyboard repeat rate and delay time

SYNOPSIS

       kbdrate [ -s ] [ -r rate ] [ -d delay ]

DESCRIPTION

       kbdrate	is used to change the keyboard repeat rate and delay time.  The delay is the amount of time that a key must be depressed before it
       will start to repeat.

       Using kbdrate without any options will reset the repeat rate to 10.9 characters per second (cps) and the delay to 250 milliseconds (ms) for
       Intel-  and M68K-based systems.	These are the IBM defaults. On SPARC-based systems it will reset the repeat rate to 5 cps and the delay to
       200 ms.

OPTIONS

       -s     Silent.  No messages are printed.

       -r rate
	      Change the keyboard repeat rate to rate cps.   For Intel-based systems, the allowable range is from 2.0 to 30.0 cps.  Only  certain,
	      specific	values are possible, and the program will select the nearest possible value to the one specified.  The possible values are
	      given, in characters per second, as follows: 2.0, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5, 2.7, 3.0, 3.3, 3.7, 4.0, 4.3, 4.6, 5.0, 5.5, 6.0,  6.7,	7.5,  8.0,
	      8.6,  9.2,  10.0,  10.9,	12.0,  13.3, 15.0, 16.0, 17.1, 18.5, 20.0, 21.8, 24.0, 26.7, 30.0.  For SPARC-based systems, the allowable
	      range is from 0 (no repeat) to 50 cps.

       -d delay
	      Change the delay to delay milliseconds.  For Intel-based systems, the allowable range is from 250 to 1000 ms, in 250 ms  steps.  For
	      SPARC systems, possible values are between 10 ms and 1440 ms, in 10 ms steps.

       -V     Display a version number and exit.

BUGS

       Not all keyboards support all rates.

       Not all keyboards have the rates mapped in the same way.

       Setting	the  repeat rate on the Gateway AnyKey keyboard does not work.	If someone with a Gateway figures out how to program the keyboard,
       please send mail to util-linux@math.uio.no.

       All this is very architecture dependent.  Nowadays kbdrate first tries the KDKBDREP and KIOCSRATE ioctls.  (The former usually works on	an
       m68k machine, the latter for SPARC.)  When these ioctls fail an ioport interface as on i386 is assumed.

FILES

       /etc/rc.local
       /dev/port

Linux 1.1.19							   22 June 1994 							KBDRATE(8)

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XkbGetAutoRepeatRate(3) 					   XKB FUNCTIONS					   XkbGetAutoRepeatRate(3)

NAME

       XkbGetAutoRepeatRate - Gets the current attributes of the RepeatKeys control for a keyboard device

SYNOPSIS

       Bool XkbGetAutoRepeatRate (Display *display, unsigned int device_spec, unsigned int *timeout_rtrn, unsigned int *interval_rtrn);

ARGUMENTS

       - display
	      connection to X server

       - device_spec
	      desired device ID, or XkbUseCoreKbd

       - timeout_rtrn
	      backfilled with initial repeat delay, ms

       - interval_rtrn
	      backfilled with subsequent repeat delay, ms

DESCRIPTION

       The  core  protocol  allows  only  control  over  whether  or not the entire keyboard or individual keys should auto-repeat when held down.
       RepeatKeys is a boolean control that extends this capability by adding control over the delay until a key begins to repeat and the rate	at
       which  it repeats. RepeatKeys is coupled with the core auto-repeat control: when RepeatKeys is enabled or disabled, the core auto-repeat is
       enabled or disabled and vice versa.

       Auto-repeating keys are controlled by two attributes. The first, timeout, is the delay after the initial press of an auto-repeating key and
       the  first  generated  repeat event. The second, interval, is the delay between all subsequent generated repeat events. As with all boolean
       controls, configuring the attributes that determine how the control operates does not automatically enable the control as a whole.

       XkbGetAutoRepeatRate queries the server for the current values of the RepeatControls control attributes, backfills timeout_rtrn and  inter-
       val_rtrn  with  them,  and  returns  True. If a compatible version of the Xkb extension is not available in the server XkbGetAutoRepeatRate
       returns False.

RETURN VALUES

       True	      The XkbGetAutoRepeatRate function returns True if a compatible version of the Xkb extension is available in the server.

       False	      The XkbGetAutoRepeatRate function returns False if a compatible version of the Xkb extension is not available in the server.

X Version 11							   libX11 1.3.2 					   XkbGetAutoRepeatRate(3)

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