SDL turns off key-repeat in X11

SDL Development
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using SDL-0.9.9

after running my app, key repeat is turned off on my local x-display…

any ideas ?

Karsten.–
Karsten-O. Laux mailto:klaux at student.uni-kl.de
University of Kaiserslautern
Germany

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using SDL-0.9.9

after running my app, key repeat is turned off on my local x-display…

any ideas ?

hm, SDL-0.8.8 (specifically Descent D1X) does the same.On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Karsten Laux wrote:

Scott M. Stone <sstone at pht.com, sstone at pht.co.jp>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)

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using SDL-0.9.9

after running my app, key repeat is turned off on my local x-display…

any ideas ?

SDL isn’t exiting properly. Are you calling SDL_Quit() explicitly, or
have it put into the atexit() chain?

See ya!
-Sam Lantinga (slouken at devolution.com)

Lead Programmer, Loki Entertainment Software–
Author of Simple DirectMedia Layer -
http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL/

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Sam Lantinga wrote:

using SDL-0.9.9

after running my app, key repeat is turned off on my local x-display…

any ideas ?

SDL isn’t exiting properly. Are you calling SDL_Quit() explicitly, or
have it put into the atexit() chain?

aaaaaah, yes. now it works. thanks.

See ya!
-Sam Lantinga (slouken at devolution.com)

Karsten.–
Karsten-O. Laux mailto:klaux at student.uni-kl.de
University of Kaiserslautern
Germany