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How can I increase the cursor speed in terminal?

How can I increase the cursor speed in terminal? I have Mac OS X by the way. It would also be interesting to know it for Linux.

I don't know what I should search for in Google (or what you like).

Solution

  • The original answer suggested using 0 as the value but no longer works as of 2019 / MacOS 10 onwards, it's now updated as 1

    If by "cursor speed", you mean the repeat rate when holding down a key - then have a look here: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20090823193018149

    To summarize, open up a Terminal window and type the following command:

    defaults write NSGlobalDomain KeyRepeat -int 1

    More detail from the article:

    Everybody knows that you can get a pretty fast keyboard repeat rate by changing a slider on the Keyboard tab of the Keyboard & Mouse System Preferences panel. But you can make it even faster! In Terminal, run this command:

    defaults write NSGlobalDomain KeyRepeat -int 0

    Then log out and log in again. The fastest setting obtainable via System Preferences is 2 (lower numbers are faster), so you may also want to try a value of 1 if 0 seems too fast. You can always visit the Keyboard & Mouse System Preferences panel to undo your changes.

    You may find that a few applications don't handle extremely fast keyboard input very well, but most will do just fine with it.

    Note: It requires a system restart