Keyboard autorepeat...

It happens from time to time that the keyboard autorepeat suddenly stops working. It just happened to me after I used VMware with Windows 7 as a guest operating system. I don't believe it's Windows' fault. Actually, I'm quite certain that it isn't! :) It's probably fault of VMware's mouse and keyboard driver that allows seamless integration of desktops.

Anyway, it is very annoying when autorepeat doesn't work, so I Googled a bit and found out that using 'xset q' should show me wether the autorepeat is on or off. What I got was:

$ xset q
Keyboard Control:
  auto repeat:  off    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00000000
  XKB indicators:
...

So, it was obvious that autorepeat is turned off. It was relatively straightforward to find how to turn it back on. It's just necessary to run 'xset r', and it was on again:

$ xset r
$ xset q
Keyboard Control:
  auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00000000
  XKB indicators:
...

That made me very happy as I didn't need to restart X session. It's a nightmare to restart X (or just logout) since I have over hundred opened tabs in Firefox...