Key press repetition is suddenly delayed

When you hold down a key (e.g. backspace to delete a sentence or arrows to navigate through text) there usually is a short delay and after that the action is automatically repeated in quick succession.

Since yesterday that delay is way too long for me, it is very annoying to wait for it every time.

Is anyone else having this issue or an idea how it could be fixed or how I might have triggered it?

I did some tests with dogtail and for that enabled “global.context.unsafe_mode” in the looking glass console. Dogtail was installed via pip in a venv. Maybe it messed up something? Maybe it is totally unrelated? I disabled unsafe_mode and did a reboot since then but it didn’t help.

Which desktop environment are you referring to?

Okay found the solution in Gnome:

Settings → Accessibility → Typing → -> Typing Assist → Repeat Keys → Delay

Slid the slider back to the default notch on the left and it is fine again. Still very strange that something changed this.

Default: Gnome on Wayland, sorry for not mentioning this.

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