How to stop keyboard repeat on VirtualBox

Question

I have been using Citrix to remote into a Windows 7 machine that's running Ubuntu in VirtualBox. The issue I ran into was repeated characters all over the place. I tried a few things but the following is what worked for me:

Simpkins

Answer 1

On your virtual machine (guest) type xset r off

This will turn off repeat.

Simpkins

This worked for me on the guest, not the host... but I haven't tried it on the host (Windows :p). Anyways, it worked. +1 – Bandolier

I'm facing this problem, what is the solution for Windows Guest? – Icterus

I have same problem as @Raghuveer. – Rock

Answer 2

This post helped me today, but I had to use a variation. If you only have terminal/console (no desktop environment) on the VM, try this:

setterm -repeat off

Lemay

Thank you SO MUCH! What a relief! – Dich