[14710] in Athena Bugs
Re: Sun Station Key Repeat Rates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sat Sep 28 03:12:59 1996
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 03:12:41 -0400
To: J Corrales <jaybyrd@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[14687] in Athena Bugs"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
> I would like to be able to set the autorepeat and delay keyboard
> settings on the current Sun4 machines to an equivalent DEC 5000 setting.
> I could possibly reconfigure the default Xsun settings with appropriate
> -ar1 and -ar2 arguments, but I realize that this would cause a hostile
> Athena Sysadmin reaction.
It looks like no one ever answered this for you.
Two points:
1. The defaults are getting restored to those in use on Athena
7.7 Suns. I'm not quite sure how that relates to the DS5000
settings but it should be a lot better than the way they work
today. This will happen in the 8.0J release, which has been
finalized but hasn't been deployed due to some slight delays
on the part of Operations. Should be any day now...
2. You should be able to start the X server by hand by
pressing ^P at the xlogin window. This will take you to a
text-mode login prompt, at which point you can login and
should be able to just type "xinit". Unfortunately this is
broken right now (trying to run the X server as a non-root
user fails due to some permissions problems because login
doesn't chown some devices properly). This probably won't
get fixed for a while, but is in general the right option if
you want to change things like this.
> Ideally there would be an xset or such utility that would allow me to
> change the autorepeat and delay values to any value I desired, possible
> to zero. That would be great.
Unfortunately I think doing so would require modifying the X server to
recognize such, and Athena is very loath to modify things like X that
are distributed as a nice clean package from the vendor -- I'm not
sure that we even have source to the exact X server that's used...
--jhawk
