Suppress key-repeat on Linux host

This ensures that key-repeat is controlled by the client, not the host (so that
network latency will not trigger key-repeat on the host if the release event is
delayed).  To test this, disable key-repeat on the client machine (on Linux,
run "xset r off").  Then verify that this works over a connection to a Linux
host (key presses from the client are not auto-repeated on the host).

This implementation should work for both IT2Me and Me2Me.  In the IT2Me case,
the local user of the host machine should experience key-repeats normally.
The host's global preference for auto-repeat is not permanently changed; the
auto-repeat is only suppressed whilst keys are pressed from the client.


BUG=115972
TEST=Manual


Review URL: http://codereview.chromium.org/9614011

git-svn-id: svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/src@125288 0039d316-1c4b-4281-b951-d872f2087c98

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/remoting/tools/me2me_virtual_host.py b/remoting/tools/me2me_virtual_host.py
index e6fa6bb..b0eb122 100755
--- a/remoting/tools/me2me_virtual_host.py
+++ b/remoting/tools/me2me_virtual_host.py
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ import socket
 import subprocess
 import sys
 import tempfile
-import threading
 import time
 import urllib2
 import uuid
@@ -332,14 +331,6 @@ class Desktop:
     if not self.session_proc.pid:
       raise Exception("Could not start X session")
 
-    # Allow some time for the desktop session to launch before disabling
-    # key-repeat, since the desktop environment may enable key-repeat during
-    # initialization.
-
-    # TODO(lambroslambrou): A more robust solution would be for the host
-    # process to disable key-repeat in its (per-platform) event-injection code.
-    threading.Timer(30, self.disable_key_repeat).start()
-
   def launch_host(self, host):
     # Start remoting host
     args = [locate_executable(REMOTING_COMMAND),
@@ -348,13 +339,6 @@ class Desktop:
     if not self.host_proc.pid:
       raise Exception("Could not start remoting host")
 
-  def disable_key_repeat(self):
-    logging.info("Disabling keyboard auto-repeat")
-    try:
-      subprocess.call(["xset", "r", "off"], env=self.child_env)
-    except OSError, e:
-      logging.error("Failed to disable keyboard auto-repeat: " + str(e))
-
 
 class PidFile:
   """Class to allow creating and deleting a file which holds the PID of the