KeyRepeat tab is gone

[demircancelebi]

What's the reason behind removing the Key Repeat tab?

[tekezo]

Karabiner-Elements use virtual keyboard to post key events since v0.90.69.
(We have to use the virtual keyboard to support sticky modifiers in Accessibility features.)

Apple does not provide a way to change the key repeat rate of keyboard devices.
Thus, the key repeat configuration was vanished.

[jackzampolin]

Is there any way to re-add this feature? Something I really enjoyed!

BTW thank you @tekezo for making my machines more productive! Love your software

[demircancelebi]

Hi @jackzampolin,
You can build the v0.90.68 from the source code as I did :)

[tekezo]

You can do it by defaults command without Karabiner-Elements.
(You have to logout and login to apply the setting.)

Example:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain KeyRepeat -int 10

[demircancelebi]

I do not know how Karabiner-Elements does it but I am able to set the KeyRepeat and InitialKeyRepeat from the Karabiner-Elements UI with a much more responsive feeling compared to editing the defaults. Is it just changing the defaults under the hood?

[franciscolourenco]

NSGlobalDomain KeyRepeat and NSGlobalDomain InitialKeyRepeat don't seem to affect my system (karabiner elements currently installed)

Log out and log it is necessary to see the effects.

I'm currently using

$ defaults write NSGlobalDomain KeyRepeat -float 1.3
$ defaults write NSGlobalDomain InitialKeyRepeat -int 11

Which is the same as: