#2 turns auto-repeat off in all of X11, leaves it off.

[kbongos]

Preferably it would not turn off auto-repeat, this effects all windows until I log out and back in to X.
For starters, I'll suggest putting in a XAutoRepeatOn(MainDisplay); at close time, until a better fix is found.

There is some code suggestion in stackoverflow, 'Ignore auto repeat in X11 applications', uses peek next event, but I could not get that to work reliably in app(relies on time stamping of X events, matching Release with next Press, same time-stamp, and skipping them..)