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kbdrate?

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Felecha

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It's intermittent, but when it happens it's uncontrollable. Any keystroke immediately starts repeating. When it's happening I can't get less than 4 or 5 characters to a kkkkkeeeeeeeyyyyyyysssssssttttttrrrrrrrrooooooookkkkkkkkeeeeeeee.

Like that.

I looked for some property page or system setting like in Windows and havent found it. I looked around and found that Linux has a command kbdrate. So I set it to

kbdrate -r 10 -d 500

which looked reasonable. It seems to have no effect at all.

Again, it's intermittent. Maybe several times in an hour?
 
Kinda sounds like a keyboard problem. Like a key is getting stuck down for a second every now and then.
 
Not a problem in windows, and when it happens it affects all keys at the time. Right now it's not happening. If it were happening now I would not be able to answer you, it's that bad.
 
Go to the gnome-menu-->Desktop--->prefrences--->Keyboard and you will get a window like this
set your prefrences to what I have in the screenshot, and you should be ok.
 
I would expect the GUI to control the settings that kbdrate does? It hasnt happened for a while now and I have rebooted a number of times. I wonder if it was a glitch that was cured by rebooting. I've only had FC4 for a couple of days and there have been other screwy things that were present for a while and then not.

FC4 seems way ahead of RedHat 9, my only other Linux experience. Lots of nicer features in GUI-land. I'm extremely interested to learn the Linux ways, but I'm aware that so much Windows user-level stuff is lots easier still. But Linux is gaining.
 
Originally posted by: Felecha
I would expect the GUI to control the settings that kbdrate does? It hasnt happened for a while now and I have rebooted a number of times. I wonder if it was a glitch that was cured by rebooting. I've only had FC4 for a couple of days and there have been other screwy things that were present for a while and then not.

FC4 seems way ahead of RedHat 9, my only other Linux experience. Lots of nicer features in GUI-land. I'm extremely interested to learn the Linux ways, but I'm aware that so much Windows user-level stuff is lots easier still. But Linux is gaining.
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You have picked the right distro to learn Linux, Fedora Core 4 is easy to setup and maintain, and in Linux land fancy GUI are not a sin (any more at least lol) , you are running gnome most probably, so go to gnome-look,
there you will find all types of themes and mods for you to make your FC4 installation more enjoyable, just remember when you downloads a theme, save it to a folder somewhere in your home directory (I would suggest you make a folder called GNOME and save the compressed files downloaded, of themes & other GUI mods stuff in there) to install a theme all you have to do is the following :

gnome-menu-->Desktop--->Preferences-->Theme

Now once you are at the Theme window, there is a button called "Install New Theme" click that and it will ask you for the location of the Theme file you have downloaded, once that is done, you will be informed that the Theme was installed right.
then go to your Theme detail button and according to what type of theme you have installed it ill be under the Controls tab, Window border tab or the icons tab, or if it's full theme you will see an option in all the tabs.

And the nice thing is that you can mix between one or more themes, so you can use the icons of one with the Window border of another theme and the controls of a third theme, whatever suits your taste.

Finally have FUN 😉.

EDIT : Also I forgot to mention, you will in the future need to install apps, the easiest way to do this in FC4 is by installing the GUI for yum :

1- go to terminal
2- become root
3-type yum install yumex
4-after the install is over now you can go to SystemTools and you will find something at the bottom that says "Yum Extender" there you go now you can use a Graphical Interface inorder to search and install apps .

And don't bother with RedHat's up2date service (that little icon that shows up on the taskbar) remove it and stick with yum, as it's superior for apps installation and updates when it comes to personal use.
 
Originally posted by: The Linuxator
And don't bother with RedHat's up2date service (that little icon that shows up on the taskbar) remove it and stick with yum, as it's superior for apps installation and updates when it comes to personal use.
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I'm enjoying up2date on my RHES4 boxes. 😉
 
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Originally posted by: The Linuxator
And don't bother with RedHat's up2date service (that little icon that shows up on the taskbar) remove it and stick with yum, as it's superior for apps installation and updates when it comes to personal use.
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I'm enjoying up2date on my RHES4 boxes. 😉
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Well as I said, I didn't say it sucks not at all, it's perfect for use with Fedora's and redhat's repos, but for ppl who want to get max amount of packages and want an installer taylored for that purpose they should stick with yum, also yum is easier to deal with.
But hey if up2date works fine for you, then whatever floats your boat :beer:
 
I had lost track of this thread till Linuxator nudged me from another. I downloaded yumex and am now reading the Yum HotTo.

Am I right that it can have connections to a number of places where stuff is kept (those are the repositories?) and with commands (and now YumEx) you can check in with any or all of them to download and install, all done by yum FOR you?

Too cool
 
And BTW, no problem with keyboard since I set it using the Preferences. Curious why the command line that I first found when poking around didn't seem to do it.

But there are lots of other adventures right now, so let that dog sleep.
 
Originally posted by: Felecha
And BTW, no problem with keyboard since I set it using the Preferences. Curious why the command line that I first found when poking around didn't seem to do it.

But there are lots of other adventures right now, so let that dog sleep.
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I had toyed with the idea of a network upgrade to FC4 from FC3
You making me nervous felecha😉

linuxator: what features you like on 4 that are absent from 3?
 
I never saw FC3, I used to have RedHat 9 on my old computer. When I say adventures it means I've been poking into lots of things and putting out lots of posts on the Forum asking for ecplanations of things. Probably the things I've had "trouble" with have been my own ignorance.

FC3 is certainly way ahead of RH9
 
To be honest, I haven't seen anyhting dramatic, but usually it does matter for some ppl, like when RedHat released GFS to the open source community ( Global File System) now it's supported by FC4 , stuff like SE Linux (Security Enhanced Linux)
got some updates here and there, but not all ppl really need SE Linux I have it enabled it never hurts 😉 most of it's featurs are benefcial for ppl running servers but some features are good for personal use and private / home networks networks.

But here are the new stuff from the horse's mouth 😉 FC4 link
 
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