Multikey autorepetition

[Peter Hutterer]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 02:57:36PM +0200, Éric Piel wrote:
> Op 28-07-10 11:43, Антон Ерофеевский schreef:
> :
> > Has decided to write for this purpose - that most to understand -
> > whether is it in linux a defect or and has been conceived
> > 
> > The basic question in that is that if to press 2 keys - why one
> > repeats only?
> Hei,
> I like very much this idea. Indeed, from a user's point of view, it's
> very weird that when you press several keys, only one of them is
> repeated. At a time where we support multitouch for the mouse, it's such
> a shame multitouch on a keyboard doesn't work. The example of pressing
> two arrow keys at the same time shows that it could clearly be useful.
> 
> Антон has even written a patch to implement it!
> 
> Is there any X guru who could explain why such behaviour would break
> totally the X11 paradigm... or review the patch?
> Peter maybe?

Key repeat is defined in the XKB protocol spec somewhere. I don't remember
off-heart but if that restricts us to one key at a time you'd need to bump
the protocol to repeat multiple keys properly. Just have a look at the spec.

Cheers,
  Peter