On my system setting the delay in rc.local has no effect. It only seems to work from the desktop.
Have a nice day -- George ____________ George Fragos fra...@gmail.com http://FragosTech.com 73 East Swift Ave. Fresno CA 93704 On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Thane <thane.po...@gmail.com> wrote: > The following worked flawlessly for me with a few speed adjustment tries. > >From Terminal, sudo vim /etc/rc.local (to edit the rc.local file). > Added the following line before the "exit" line: kbdrate -r 12 -d 500 > The 12 figure lets me read about 3 lines continuously scrolling out of > about every 20 in a daily newsletter and keep up with the scroll. If you > need the scroll a bit slower, try 10 instead of 12 and conversely try 14 if > you need it a bit faster for your purposes. > > -- > [intrepid] keyboard Repeat Keys is failing to adjust > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/264196 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > -- [intrepid] keyboard Repeat Keys is failing to adjust https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/264196 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs