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I am using RXVT (URXVT to be precise) under Ubuntu 12.04. I noticed that the cursor speed is extremely slow. I was looking to see if there is a setting that can be applied to speed cursor movement ?

Thanks for your attention.

RRS

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Try:

xset r rate 400 44

The delay (400) is the number of milliseconds before autorepeat starts.

The rate (44) is the number of repeats per second.

See man xset for details and lots of other options.

To see the current values before changing them:

xset q | grep rate
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Is this like a one time thing I do, or I set this up in my .bashrc script. Or do I run xrdb ~/.Xdefaults ? – boffin Jun 27 '12 at 13:27
It is a temporary change, that you can run on the command line, and should take effect immediately. If it works, you'd need to include it in an X startup file (to be run when you login), but I'm not sure what file would be appropriate for Ubuntu. – Brian Swift Jun 27 '12 at 16:50
Thanks for the info – boffin Jun 27 '12 at 19:49

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