>I thought I would give a xset a try but I don't understand the syntax.

I think it is clear enough in the man page. The xset manpage has two
paragraphs for the "r" option. The second paragraph says

If  the  server supports the XFree86-Misc extension, or the XKB
extension, then a parameter of ’rate’ is accepted and should be
followed  by  zero, one or two numeric values. The first specifies
the delay before autorepeat starts and the  second  specifies
the repeat rate.  In the case that the server supports the XKB extension,
the delay is the number of  milliseconds  before autorepeat  starts,
and  the rate is the number of repeats per second.  If the rate or delay is not 
given,
it will be  set  to the default value.

So if you want a reasonable delay of 500ms a a repeat rate of 25 characters per 
second, you would type
xset r rate 500 25
Typing xset q (which shows the parameters in effect) then reflects the change. 
I does *not*, however, make an actual difference in keyboard behavior (which is 
probably due to this very bug).

My workaround for this problem is adding the line
kbdrate -r 25 -d 500
to the file /etc/rc.local
This fixed the problem for me, with no visible side effects so far.

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[intrepid] keyboard Repeat Keys is failing to adjust, when AutoAddDevices is on
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/264196
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