This bug report was migrated from our old Bugzilla tracker.

Reported in version: HG 2.1
Reported for operating system, platform: Linux, x86_64

Comments on the original bug report:

On 2017-02-17 05:56:03 +0000, Andrey Alexeyev wrote:

Subject. To reproduce: xset r off, make sure key repeat is indeed off, launch any SDL2 applicaion, key repeat is now enabled again. Probably shouldn't mess with the system's settings like this.

Removing the X11_XAutoRepeatOn call from X11_InitKeyboard in video/x11/SDL_x11keyboard.c should fix it, I think.

On 2018-08-07 18:17:15 +0000, Ryan C. Gordon wrote:

I'm inclined to say we shouldn't force autorepeat on. I don't think having it off will break anything (users will get a single, longer-held KEYDOWN event followed by a single KEYUP if they hold down a key, and SDL_TEXTINPUT won't repeat chars, of course), but this should only act differently if the user went out of their way to force it off anyhow, right?

This change happened here originally: https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/a7cbc25071b6

Sam: any opinions on this?

--ryan.

On 2020-04-09 22:05:39 +0000, wrote:

ping !

This is annoying, indeed.