Bug 67295

Summary:	keyboard repeat repeatedly unset
Product:	[Unmaintained] kcontrol	Reporter:	Ernesto Zimmermann <ernesto_z>
Component:	kcminput	Assignee:	Patrick Dowler <dowler>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	lgrinberg, marcus.hambraeus, missive, nik
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Unlisted Binaries
OS:	Linux
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Description Ernesto Zimmermann 2003-11-05 13:11:43 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1.3)
Installed from:    Unspecified Linux
OS:          Linux

Some application (possible options: Ximian Evolution, Mozilla Firebird, XMMS, Kicker) unsets the 
keyboard repeat option from time to time, so it has to be re-set manually (via preferences) - which is pretty annoying.

Comment 1 Stephan Kulow 2003-11-05 13:40:33 UTC

kicker surely doesn't change the keyboard repeat option. And what the other
listed applications do it is of course out of reach of KDE.

Comment 2 Hans Chen 2006-03-16 02:49:48 UTC

I have this problem to.
Have had this since KDE 3.4 I think. I'm using Slackware 10.2.

I have no idea that causes this, but I find it very annoying. Suddenly, the keyboard repeat is unset! Could it be some kind of shortcut I accidently pressed or  something?

Out of the applications you listed, I only use Mozilla Firefox and Kicker.

Comment 3 Matt Stevens 2006-11-21 10:16:02 UTC

I'm running Debian with KDE 3.5.5. This keeps happening to me. Apparently it's not fixed.

Comment 4 Leonid Grinberg 2009-02-19 03:17:55 UTC

I am having the same problem. I am running 4.2 on Arch. Apps I run include Kicker, Firefox and Pidgin, but I can't think of any of them unsetting it.

Comment 5 Andy Goossens 2009-02-25 16:47:02 UTC

*** Bug 124173 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Andy Goossens 2009-02-25 16:47:31 UTC

*** Bug 184885 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 missive 2009-06-13 20:30:20 UTC

I have this problem also. As mentioned in Bug 184885, I am also running synergyc, so there does seem to be a bug in their code.

Maybe this could be turned in to a wishlist item along the lines of "Have KDE lock the keyboard repeat setting" kind of like kwin can fix application issues with the various Special Application Settings.

Comment 8 Marcus Hambraeus 2010-06-14 15:38:04 UTC

Having the same problem, I'm on Kubuntu 10.04 (KDE 4.4.2). It occurs while I'm using Kate mainly, and it seems to happen when I'm tabbing out/to kate at times. Difficult to reproduce, seems to happen quite randomly. In System Settings, the box is unchecked, so something is unseting this and KDE notices, so it doesn't seem to be a malfunction. Checking the box makes it work till next itme it happens.

Comment 9 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-04 18:06:59 UTC

Hello! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this project has been unmaintained for many years so I am closing this bug. Kcontrol has been replaced by System Settings in Plasma. Please give the latest version of that a try, and open a new bug in "systemsettings" if you continue to have an issue. Thank you!