Re: autorepeat behavior in emacs 28.2 running in WSL

[cabbage]

On Tuesday, October 11, 2022 9:32 PM, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:  

>
>     cabbage--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
>     <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
>  
>     > When I would hold down a key for probably 660 ms it would repeat for
> many
>     > minutes making emacs unresponsive. I finally tried xset r off and now,
> holding
>     > down a key still autorepeats, but doesn't make emacs unresponsive.  
>     >
>     >  
>     >
>     > Where does that come from? I might want the autorepeat behavior at
> some point.
>     > I'd like to be able to restore it in X and not have emacs go bananas.  
>  
>     It comes from both Windows and X.  Windows autorepeats the keystrokes,
>     which are then sent to Wayland (against the Wayland spec.)  Then,
>     Microsoft's modified copy of Xwayland autorepeats each of those
>     keystrokes as well, causing the speed of autorepeat to grow increasingly
>     faster the longer you hold down a key.
>  
>     The WSL X server is of extremely low quality and is best poked at with a
>     very long stick.  The longer, the better.  
>     >

Oddly, this is no longer happening today, after rebooting my computer.  

  

It was happening in emacs, but not in gnome-terminal.