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Mario Palumbo
Mario Palumbo

Reputation: 985

Ubuntu 20.04 occasionally disables key repetition

I don't know how or why, sometimes, suddenly, for no apparent reason, key repetition is disabled.
If I run this command:

 xset r on

or if I wait half an hour, the key repetition starts working again but after a few days the problem suddenly returns.
I think it's because xorg or another system program suddenly crashes, but that's just a guess.

I have no idea of the cause of the problem, so I ask whoever has the same problem, if they have been able to diagnose it.

I use Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Desktop 64-bit freshly installed.

There is a similar problem in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, if it matches my problem, it would mean the bug hasn't been fixed for 12 years!:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/272293?comments=all

Upvotes: 5

Views: 3098

Answers (1)

casonadams
casonadams

Reputation: 1170

Reset keyboard settings to default

First do a dump of any keyboard settings that differ from default

dconf dump /org/gnome/desktop/peripherals/keyboard/

# => [org/gnome/desktop/peripherals/keyboard]
# => delay=uint32 188
# => numlock-state=true
# => repeat=true
# => repeat-interval=uint32 0

Then reset them back to defaults

dconf reset -f /org/gnome/desktop/peripherals/keyboard/

Danger proceed with care (you probably don't need to do anything beyond here)

Dump all changes

dconf dump /

Reset all settings back to default

dconf reset -f /

Upvotes: 2

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