Friday, February 10, 2017

Repeated keys in Cygwin over Remote Desktop

When connected to a Windows PC over a Remote Desktop connection (aka RDP), and the connection has any slowness, the delays can trigger the key repeat timeout, resulting in extra keys being sent to Cygwin applications.

For example, I use cygwin at work, and everything works great. But when I'm at home, connected to my work PC via Remote Desktop, I was constantly having to correct repeated keys when the connection wasn't perfect. The xset command can fix this:

xset r rate 1000 250

This sets the initial repeat delay to 1000 ms (1 second), and the repeate at 250ms.

5 comments:

Tye Z. said...

test comment by self...

Tye Z. said...

reply to test comment from self

Tye Z. said...

another reply ... is this forwarded to limited group?

Tye Z. said...

another try with announcement-only group settings

Tye Z. said...

Test comment so Julie can see what the notification email will look like when forwarded to the group.