[SOLVED] Cannot navigate text with arrow key

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Hello guys,
I’m new to Manjaro and Arch based distribution and I’m starting to falling in love with them.
I’ve a little problem related to keyboard arrow keys. I’m trying to navigate through text (eg using LibreOffice), but if I keep pressed an arrow key, the cursor moves only once on arrow direction.

Do you have any suggestion to solve this issue?

Thank you in advance.

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Hi and welcome!

Please check your keyboard settings:

xfce4-keyboard-settings
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Agree with @megavolt (unless it doesn’t fix your problem :slight_smile: )

You can also get to keyboard settings via Settings Manager and select Keyboard. Under Typing Settings there is a checkbox Enable key repeat. This assumes the desktop is XFCE.

For Plasma/KDE, from the command line: kcmshell5 kcm_keyboard
Or, System Settings > Input Devices > Keyboard and check the Keyboard Repeat section.

If by chance this doesn’t work:

  1. Which desktop?
  2. All applications or just libreoffice?
  3. What’s the output of the command: xset -q | grep repeat
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Hi Guys, thank you for your answers. The issue was related to the value associated to the second slide on Keyboard Repeat section. It was set to one. I moved it to the max value on it works fine now.

I change the title to FIX.

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Please use the solution button on the post that solved the problem, instead of changeing the title. Thanks :slight_smile: