Re: xset: extension "XFree86-Misc" missing on display

Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> $ xset r rate 250 30 
> Xlib:  extension "XFree86-Misc" missing on display ":0.0".
> 
> The keyboard rate is correctly set, so what is this error about?
> 
> (i386-current, local display, no xorg.conf)

There used to be 2 ways to set the repeat rate: one for the case without
XKB and the other for XKB.

Now XFree86-Misc is disabled by default and XKB is always on, and
there's a bug somewhere in xset that still makes it verbose, while it's
suppoded to be fixed since 2005:

> commit 287b04adcd4d01118902bd27bbb91007aad93a62
> Author: Roland Mainz <[email protected]>
> Date:   Sun Mar 20 20:45:58 2005 +0000
> 
>     //bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2258) attachment #2166
>         (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=2166) "xset q" (query)
>         should not print an error message ('Xlib: extension "XFree86-Misc"
>         missing on display ":35.0".') when the "XFree86-Misc" is not available
>         on the Xserver.

Investigating....
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Matthieu Herrb