[KLUG Members] Key repeat

[Bruce Smith]

> My uptime is inching, well, up. :-)

Cool!

> [bill@a bill]$ uptime
>   6:12pm  up 6 days,  1:32,  2 users,  load average: 0.54, 0.31,
> 0.22
> 
> I am extremely reluctant to reboot at this point, but have
> noticed that somewhere along the line I have no automatic
> keystroke repitition.
> 
> Is there a way to add keystroke repitition at this point or am I
> doomed to life of peck, peck, peck, peck, peck?
> 
> I am running Mandrake 8.0 with Xfree86 4.0.2(?) and usually use
> KDE although I have a number of other GUI's at hand. I was told
> that Linux only has to be rebooted for hardware and kernel
> upgrades. If that is true, how do I accomplish this feat?

You can control the keyboard properties in X-windows with
the command "xset".  See the man page, or let me know if
you need more specifics.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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