How to change pop up speed of "Press and Hold"

Question

When pressing and holding a keyboard button, i.e. an a, a character pops up.

PressAndHold

I recall that I was somehow able to change how long I need to hold a key until the Picker pops up on Yosemite. I cannot find a place to change the popup speed on Mavericks though.

defaults read -g | grep -i press does not return anything.

I'd say not a dupe, as the option wasn't directly switchable before Yosemite, so the answer wasn't as simple. — Tetsujin, Apr 14 '15 at 18:16
… and, apologies… I only just realised the question is for Mavericks — Tetsujin, Apr 14 '15 at 18:17
I don't see this as a duplicate, since it seems there has been a change in how this setting could be set. I believe it was possible to set this via defaults write someoption in Yosemite. — jottr, Apr 14 '15 at 18:21
Cool - it may be worth re-titling the question to make it less-specific, then, for future Googlers. — Tetsujin, Apr 14 '15 at 18:50
Done. You can always edit your own question with the edit button just underneath it. Editing others' questions needs more rep, but you can always build towards that :) — Tetsujin, Apr 14 '15 at 18:53

Tetsujin · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-14T18:54:44.713

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Apparently, this works for both Mavericks & Yosemite...

You can do it right from the prefs

System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard

Set Delay until repeat

It works for the accent pop-up just the same as it does for 'regular' key repeat

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edited Apr 14 '15 at 18:54

answered Apr 14 '15 at 18:14

Tetsujin

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How to change pop up speed of "Press and Hold"

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