With the Keyboard Repeat Switcher application for our Nokia N900 we can switch repeating keys on and off, useful to turn off the “longpress blue key” feature of the Maemo 5 PR 1.2 input method.

Keyboard Repeat Switcher integrates into the status menu. A Desktop widget also exists (package name: repeatswitcher).
Keyboard Repeat Switcher is available in the Extras-Devel repository. To learn more about repositories, click here.

thanks for the apps