diff --git a/desktop/.config/river/init b/desktop/.config/river/init
index b884b6c..64c907d 100755
--- a/desktop/.config/river/init
+++ b/desktop/.config/river/init
@@ -191,8 +191,8 @@ for mode in normal locked; do
     # Eject the optical drive
     riverctl map $mode None XF86Eject spawn 'eject -T'
 
-    riverctl map $mode None XF86AudioRaiseVolume spawn 'pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ +5%'
-    riverctl map $mode None XF86AudioLowerVolume spawn 'pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ -5%'
+    riverctl map -repeat $mode None XF86AudioRaiseVolume spawn 'pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ +5%'
+    riverctl map -repeat $mode None XF86AudioLowerVolume spawn 'pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ -5%'
     riverctl map $mode None XF86AudioMute spawn 'pactl set-sink-mute @DEFAULT_SINK@ toggle'
 
     # Control MPRIS aware media players with playerctl (https://github.com/altdesktop/playerctl)
@@ -202,8 +202,8 @@ for mode in normal locked; do
     riverctl map $mode None XF86AudioNext spawn 'playerctl next'
 
     # You can control screen backlight brighness with light (https://github.com/haikarainen/light); but we prefer brightnessctl
-    riverctl map $mode None XF86MonBrightnessUp spawn 'brightnessctl set 10%+'
-    riverctl map $mode None XF86MonBrightnessDown spawn 'brightnessctl set 10%-'
+    riverctl map -repeat $mode None XF86MonBrightnessUp spawn 'brightnessctl set 10%+'
+    riverctl map -repeat $mode None XF86MonBrightnessDown spawn 'brightnessctl set 10%-'
 done
 
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