On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 8:41 PM, Patrick Burroughs <celticmadman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:26, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Good point. In a TTY there is no problem. It's an X thing. Maybe I >> should try the openbox list. Google shows nothing. > > You might try `xset r 116` — that will explicitly enable autorepeat > for the Down key, if it was somehow disabled. > Right. It does the job. I guess I'll put it in the openbox startup file. Somehow it seems strange that openbox is responsable for this, I would first suspect some driver or something like that. It would be interesting to know whether somebody else who uses arch+openbox has this problem. Thanks Jorge