keyboard rates on X11 are changed

[loiccoyle]

Version Information:

• uname -a :
  Linux FrameWork 5.16.12-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed, 02 Mar 2022 12:22:51 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
• swhkd -V :
  swhkd 1.1.2

Describe the bug:
When on X11, the keyboard's delay and repeat rates are not respected. They get set to delay: 660 and repeat: 25.

Expected behavior:
For the keyboard rates to remain unchanged.

Actual behavior:
Keyboard rates are changed to 660 25.

To Reproduce:

$ xset r rate 300 50
$ swhks &
$ pkexec swhkd -c ~/.config/swhkd/swhkdrc
$ xset q
...
  auto repeat delay:  660    repeat rate:  25
...

[Shinyzenith]

Hi! thank you for the bug report
can you try the following?
git clone https://github.com/waycrate/swhkd/
cd swhkd
git checkout testing_auto_repeat
make setup
make
sudo make install

If it occurs even after that, we can try another approach of setting the autorepeat in the uinput device itself.

[loiccoyle]

No change :(

[Shinyzenith]

@vainiovano I think we need your assistance here 🙏🏽.

[vainiovano]

Those are Xorg's default key repeat settings. The settings are probably per-keyboard, which is why they change when switching to swhkd's virtual keyboard.

[Shinyzenith]

@vainiovano Is it possible to set it for the uinput device?

[Shinyzenith]

we could call the get autorepeat function and pass it to uinput ?

[vainiovano]

I think that evdev's autorepeat settings are per-fd, so Xorg can't read them, and I think that Xorg implements its own autorepeat itself anyway.

[vainiovano]

Hmm, from checking Linux' source code (and testing with evtest) it looks like repeat settings are global. I should probably remove setting them in swhkd. Anyway, they don't affect Xorg as it ignores repeat events.

[Shinyzenith]

Hmm, from checking Linux' source code (and testing with evtest) it looks like repeat settings are global. I should probably remove setting them in swhkd. Anyway, they don't affect Xorg as it ignores repeat events.

I guess we can try to call xset rate with a shell command after uinput creation?

[Shinyzenith]

if on x environment that is.