Re: problem: occasional keystroke doubling (a known issue?)

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Lev,

Lev Bishop wrote:
> Looking through the archives it seems that people were discussing 
> something like this about a year ago (see the "double keystroke effects 
> with XP" thread), but I'm not sure if this is quite the same thing, since 
> that report talks about problems only with normal-speed typing and I get 
> it even for isolated keypresses.

Or even yesterday and today:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-05/msg00534.html

:)

> Basically what happens is that occasionally a keystroke gets doubled. Its 
> nothing to do with focus changes AFAICT (see "New devel to-do item 
> (release all pressed keyboard keys on focus loss)" thread). Most often 
> noticable with doubled newline after completing a command. I've only 
> observed it for xterm but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen for other 
> clients. The most reliable way I know to replicate it is to do something 
> like "info coreutils" and then slowly keep pressing "n" for the next 
> topic. Maybe 1 time in 10 you can see it actually jumps 2 topics not 1.

Run 'xset r off'.  That should fix your problem.  If not, try fiddling 
with the Windows key repeat rate in the Control Panel.

Please let use know if either of these fixes your problem.

Harold