problem: occasional keystroke doubling (a known issue?)

[Ruth Ivimey-Cook]

At 19:43 28/05/2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>Now, if I could only find a way to turn this off programmatically, once 
>and for all.  This X key repeat feature is completely unnecessary since 
>Windows handles key repeats for us.  I tried to interface with the same 
>code that xset interfaces with, but it did not seem that this interface 
>was meant to be built into an X Server.  Perhaps someone else can help me 
>figure out how to disable this.  It could be a simple as a build flag, but 
>I have never come across it.

Harold,

ISTR that the standard X servers have command line options to set keyboard 
repeat up. Perhaps the code path those options use will be helpful?

Ruth (who has also seen this issue on XP Pro)