I may be an alien around here, but here's my problem: the speed limit on old Ubuntu releases (= before 11) was very very fast. It was really great for me.
Now, on Ubuntu 11, they may have thought: "who will ever want that speed? Nobody! So let's put the maximum speed to a lower limit".
It's so stupid that they tried to narrow down the speed to some other famous OS. If Linux is more powerful, why remove some of its power? I don't get that.
So is there any way to override that speed limit and get my keyboard as fast as it is on other previous versions?
Best Answer
Given that this issue hasn't been fixed yet, and can be very frustrating, I here's a workaround:
Initially I used
xset r rate, but the problem with it is that it's not persistent after sleep/awake, and sometimes the desktop reverts to limited rate at random times (probably gnome settings daemon does something which causes reinforcing the settings).I was uselessly changing my old gconf keyboard settings, only to discover that the setting has been migrated to gsettings. The value limit is hardcoded in the system settings application (
gnome-control-centerin file./panels/keyboard/gnome-keyboard-panel.ui:877).You can easily override it:
As long as you don't change your settings from the gui, this setting should be persistent.