Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:32:47 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Simon Barner <barner@in.tum.de> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Keyboard repeat rate and delay are saved as floats Message-ID: <1074709967.768.83.camel@gyros> In-Reply-To: <20040121113912.GA903@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> References: <20040121113912.GA903@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de>
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--=-j4FkPV8yZHNYZm6AbW0N Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 06:39, Simon Barner wrote: > Hi, >=20 > [ FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE, Gnome 2.5, see pkginfo.txt ] >=20 > When I use <Menu>->Applications->Desktop Preferences->Keyboard to > customize my settings, I get the following error (in a gwarning box): Works fine for me, but I'm still running g-c-c 2.5.1.1 on this machine (I'm waiting for GNOME 2.5.3 before I do the recursive upgrade). >=20 > Type mismatch: Expected `int' got `float' for key > /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/rate >=20 > Type mismatch: Expected `int' got `float' for key > /desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/delay >=20 > While this message is only annoying, the real problem is, that my > keyboard is unusable since the float values are misinterpreted: When I > press a key, it is printed twice are more often, i.e. the delay seems to > be very short and the repeat speed very high. >=20 > The only possibility to restore valid integer values is to use gconf > editor, and to delete the bogus float values and to re-create them as > integers (delay=3D450 and rate=3D90 are good choices for me). >=20 > I had a glance at gnomecontrolcenter's code, and it looks that gconf > entries get their type specification from schemas. The corresponding one > seems to be >=20 > /usr/X11R6/etc/gconf/schemas/desktop_gnome_peripherals_keyboard.schemas. >=20 > There, both rate and delay are ints. >=20 > Before I take any further action, like trying to produce a patch or file > a bugzilla report, I'd like to know whether somebody can reproduce this, > or whether this is a local problem. Sounds like kaeru can reproduce this, so a bug would be a good thing to have. As he said, please keep us in the loop so we can add it to the Known Issues list. Thanks. Joe >=20 > Regards, > Simon --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-j4FkPV8yZHNYZm6AbW0N Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBADsXPb2iPiv4Uz4cRAqshAKCOxR1lV43PKvH3SK2tPkmuqvUzugCfdpB0 752cn26mP8HpUSFRClpBXoY= =gIqs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-j4FkPV8yZHNYZm6AbW0N--
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