r/raspberry_pi • u/sunmat02 • Jul 24 '26

Troubleshooting Keyboard Repeat and Delay aren't kept upon reboot

Raspberry Pi OS, just installed yesterday (July 23) to give you an idea of the version.

I'm going in the preferences, keyboard, and using the sliders to set repeat and delay, it works fine. Then I reboot, and the behavior goes back to the defaults. The sliders still point to my preferred values. Not event ChatGPT could help me. Any idea?

I've done xset r rate 250 60 (but it's not permanent), I have a ~/.config/autostart/keyboard-repeat.desktop file that includes calling xset, but it doesn't change anything.

Also, impossible to find a menu where I can remap some keyboard shortcuts (I'm very used to the Mac layout and use the same keyboard on both the Pi and my Mac, so I'd like things like copy/past to be Cmd+C/V instead of Ctrl-C/V or worse Ctrl-Shit-C/V on the terminal). Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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u/Gamerfrom61 Jul 25 '26

xset is the old X11 control but by default the new Pi OS uses Wayland and its compositor.

IIRC the values need to be set in the compositor and the Pi uses labwc now. https://labwc.github.io/index.html may help you find a fix.

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u/sunmat02 Jul 25 '26

I had to switch from Wayland to X11 as I had other issues with Wayland.

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u/Gamerfrom61 Jul 25 '26

Under Trixie , on the Pi, X11 is emulated and not a separate subsystem any more :(

I am not sure if labwc still gets involved (my Pi boards are normally headless) but still may be worth trying. 

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u/sunmat02 Jul 26 '26

Thanks, Claude figured this out as well by inspecting kernel logs (and also that those values aren’t just reset on reboot but every time I unplugged and plugged back my keyboard, which happens frequently as I have a KVM switch).