DJ Delorie: >> Hey developers! "hold shift key for 10 seconds" is common in many >> video games (esp Minecraft). You can't just change the user's >> keyboard without warning! Tim: > It's also common for typing ALL CAPS words when you don't want to use > the caps lock key. Or batch selecting a group of icons on the desktop or file manager. Or restricting X or Y movement in drawing programs... I know I've triggered that function, accidentally, quite a few times, on older Fedora releases. I've been left with no way to use keyboard, and no apparent reason why. At times I've found a requester windows has popped up asking if I wanted to activate "sticky keys," but the requester had appeared underneath current windows, and without any indication that it was there in the window list on the bottom panel of the Gnome screen. And until that requester was answered, the keyboard was unusable. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
