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How to stop keyboard repetition on VirtualBox

I am using Citrix to remotely access a machine running Windows 7 that runs Ubuntu in VirtualBox. The problem I ran into was repeating the characters everywhere. I tried a few things, but for me it worked as follows:

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On your virtual machine (guest) type xset r off

This will disable the replay.

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This post helped me today, but I had to use a variation. If the virtual machine has only a terminal / console (no desktop environment), try the following:

 setterm -repeat off
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