How to stop keyboard repeat on VirtualBox

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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:

score 31 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 22 '17 at 13:58

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On your virtual machine (guest) type xset r off

This will turn off repeat.

edited Oct 22 '17 at 13:58

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answered Dec 31 '13 at 16:54

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This was driving me crazy. Thanks! – cph2117 Sep 28 '16 at 23:55
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This worked for me on the guest, not the host... but I haven't tried it on the host (Windows :p). Anyways, it worked. +1 – Chaim Eliyah Aug 24 '17 at 17:44
I'm facing this problem, what is the solution for Windows Guest? – Raghuveer Mar 01 '19 at 14:26
I have same problem as @Raghuveer. – JazzSoft Aug 07 '19 at 03:04

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 26 '18 at 19:03

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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

answered Feb 26 '18 at 19:03

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Thank you SO MUCH! What a relief! – spemble May 24 '21 at 22:35

How to stop keyboard repeat on VirtualBox

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