On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 08:13:53PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > Peter Hutterer wrote: > >On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 07:07:40PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > >>Let me add a few comments. (I don't know if I am allowed to post to > >>the xorg-devel mailing list, so if I am not, maybe Peter could > >>forward this for me.) > >> > >>First, my man page is horribly incomplete, but the command "xkbset > >>h" gives a rather comprehensive list of all the commands. I had > >>intended to include a lengthy description of how mousekeys can be > >>adjusted, as well as how the accessx feature works. There is a very > >>good and detailed description in the document > >>http://refspecs.freestandards.org/X11/XKBlib.ps, but it embedded in > >>the middle of the document, as this document is meant for > >>programmers, not users. > >well, IMO xkbset itself is more for developers than users too, so I don't > >worry too much about the man page being incomplete :) > >it'll get fixed up over time, I guess. > > Actually, a large number of the people who used xkbset used > "bouncekeys" because some Toshiba laptops would unexpectedly repeat > keys due to some mistiming issue with the hardware.
gnome can enable/disable bounce keys, so I usually refer users to use the desktop environment's tools. it's easier and persistent. xkbset is like xinput runtime-only and since server 1.7 at least, using commandline tools doesn't always have the results that users expect Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
