Tim: >> I've been similarly caught, with older releases Stuart McGraw: > That doesn't sound quite like what I am seeing. For me it seems > the sticky keys or slow keys mode is being activated without needing > any response from me, simply by my clicking the shift key quickly > or holding it down too long. Ah, but it /has/ been from you doing something. Your non-standard use of the shiftkey is the trigger (non-standard, in that you're not using it to immediately type capital letters). Personally, I think using the shift key as the trigger is a rather poor choice. Since people typing a row of capital letters may use it instead of the caps-lock, or they may be holding shift to mouse-select several items. > This happens despite my having disable all the assistive option in the > settings Accessibility applet. It looks like you hadn't, yet, turned off assistive features (because of those annoying problems mentioned above). As I recall, hanging on to the shift key is for activating some specific features of an assistive technology, rather than the overall on/off of assistive technologies. Turn off the master switch, and the individual features are permanently disabled. Since I turned off the overall thing on my installation, I haven't had the individual features pop up and annoy me. If the feature had been activated at the logon screen, I think it carries over into the session. Otherwise, you'd turn them on, post logon. For what it's worth, I'm running the MATE desktop on Fedora 20, on this particular computer. I don't like the way the Gnome 3 desktop works. An alternative thing for you to follow up: Find the keyboard preferences, see if it has an accessibility section, and options for accessibility features being controlled by hotkeys. -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.18.9-100.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Mon Mar 9 17:04:05 UTC 2015 i686 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
