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.
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