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How to stop keyboard repeat on VirtualBox

I have been using Citrix to remote into a Windows 7 machine that's running Ubuntu in VirtualBox. The issue I ran into was repeated characters all over the place. I tried a few things but the following is what worked for me:

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xdotcommer Avatar asked Dec 31 '13 16:12

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2 Answers

On your virtual machine (guest) type xset r off

This will turn off repeat.

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xdotcommer Avatar answered Oct 18 '22 20:10

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This post helped me today, but I had to use a variation. If you only have terminal/console (no desktop environment) on the VM, try this:

setterm -repeat off
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ChronoLogic Avatar answered Oct 18 '22 19:10

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