On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:35:41AM +0100, Tobias Oetiker wrote: > Hi Meik, > > > > On Solaris 10 x86 using Xsun with SRSS, how do I adjust the keyboard > > > repeat rate and the intial delay? I'd like 250ms initial delay and 40 > > > chars/sec or so. I've only been able to find references to accessx > > > which can slow the keyboard down even further, kbd which can adjust > > > the console keyboard and the -ar1 and -ar2 Xsun server options which > > > would then be server-global if I hacked them into the global X server > > > setup. > > > > > > Is the only option to enable XKB? If I do that, are there any > > > downsides? > > > > I think it is the only option, besides the -ar hack. One downside is in > > the SRSS for Solaris release notes: it doesn't work well with the CDE > > desktop environment (i.e., I have no autorepeat at all under CDE). > > our setup (ubuntu 704/SRSS 3.1.1) works fine with xkb enabled ... > and I use xset for the rate ..
We enabled XKB and experienced the following: 1) On the good side, we could set repeat rates as we liked (except Solaris xset doesn't support this, but the KDE control panel did and xset from a Linux host also did). 2) VMWare does not work correctly with the XSun XKeyboard extension; forget everything about capital letters and control keys after having once had the keyboard grabbed by a VM and then ungrabbed. VMWare simply doesn't resture the keyboard correctly on ungrab. This was with VMWare workstation as well as server. Only solution; log out and back in. 3) alt-tab stops working as the users expect, in full screen (kiosk) terminal server sessions using uttsc. It doesn't bring up the icon selection box thingy as usual, instead it cycles the buttons in the task bar without cycling the actual windows. So, in conclusion, we disabled XKB again and currently live with the horrendously slow keyboard repeat rates, but the terminal server users are happy and we can use VMWare again without logging in and out all them time :) I do of course realize that the VMWare problem most likely is a VMWare bug and not an XSun bug. -- / jakob _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
