From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 21 10:32:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4077916A4CF for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:32:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rrcs-midsouth-24-172-16-118.biz.rr.com [24.172.16.118]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 878D443D48 for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 10:32:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [10.2.1.4] (vpn-client-4.marcuscom.com [10.2.1.4]) i0LIV5sm074951; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:31:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Simon Barner In-Reply-To: <20040121113912.GA903@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> References: <20040121113912.GA903@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-j4FkPV8yZHNYZm6AbW0N" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Message-Id: <1074709967.768.83.camel@gyros> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:32:47 -0500 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,HTML_MESSAGE autolearn=ham version=2.61 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.61 (1.212.2.1-2003-12-09-exp) on creme-brulee.marcuscom.com cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users Subject: Re: Keyboard repeat rate and delay are saved as floats X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 18:32:54 -0000 --=-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 ->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--