keyboard delay prevents smooth player movement

[wattahay]

Feature of Bug?
The feature might be desirable over the old game, because the old game lacks control sometimes. However nice it is to get up and going, it does not usually prove THAT advantageous game-wise.

one possible fix is to use:
xset -r 120 20
however, this changes the keyboard delay system-wide

Another option is to start using pygame, and to see if the keyboard event function works independent of a GUI version.