Increase the keyboard key repeat rate

Oct 30, '03 09:07:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

If you are also fed up by the abysmally low keyboard repeat rate in OS X (even at the highest setting in the system preferences), this is the hint for you. The preference file, where this setting is stored, is hidden, so you can't open it from the Finder. If you have the Developer Tools installed, you can just type

open ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist
in the terminal and change the entry to something bigger than 2 (the current max). You'll have to log out and back in to see the changes. The lines to change look like this:

<key>KeyRepeat</key>
<integer>2</integer>
[robg adds: You don't need the Dev Tools installed to view the file, of course -- you can use open -e .GlobalPreferences.plist to force it to open in TextEdit, or just throw your favorite Terminal editor at it.]

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