Disabling SlowKeys?

[Tethys]

I, along with many others, have a frequent annoyance where SlowKeys
gets enabled in the X server. Yes, I can work around it by holding
down a shift key to turn it off again. But is there any way I can
permanently disable it? Some way of configuring the X server such that
it never enables SlowKeys? I'm getting *really* fed up with it, and no
one seems to know what's turning it on. It's certainly *not* being
enabled by me holding down shift. And the bug report implies that the
X server itself isn't capable of turning it on. So it must be an
application that's doing it. However, I'm not running anything that I
wasn't running in previous Fedora releases, but I never had this
problem until F17 :-(

Tet

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"Java is a DSL for taking large XML files and converting them to stack
traces" -- Bulat Shakirzyanov

[DJ Delorie]

The only "solution" I've found for this (other than hacking that feature
out of X ;) is to put this in my .xsession:

xkbset sl 1

This doesn't disable slow keys, but sets slow keys at the fastest
possible timeout so that the keyboard acts the same when slowkeys is
enabled.

(xkbset is in xkbset-*.rpm)

[Joe Zeff]

On 01/30/2013 12:31 PM, Tethys wrote:
>  I, along with many others, have a frequent annoyance where SlowKeys
>  gets enabled in the X server. Yes, I can work around it by holding
>  down a shift key to turn it off again. But is there any way I can
>  permanently disable it? Some way of configuring the X server such that
>  it never enables SlowKeys? I'm getting *really* fed up with it, and no
>  one seems to know what's turning it on. It's certainly *not* being
>  enabled by me holding down shift. And the bug report implies that the
>  X server itself isn't capable of turning it on. So it must be an
>  application that's doing it. However, I'm not running anything that I
>  wasn't running in previous Fedora releases, but I never had this
>  problem until F17 :-(
>  
It may help to find out what program is slowing the keys down.  If you 
know that, you may be able to disable it, or configure it not to 
activate without user input.

You might try this: open a terminal and run this command:

ps aux > fast.txt

Leave the terminal open and go back to work.  When SlowKeys manifests, 
go back to the terminal and do the same thing again, putting the output 
in slow.txt before de-activating the slow keys.  Then you can run diff 
on the two files to see what's changed, because one of the new programs 
is probably the one you want to look at.  HTH, HAND.

[Panu Matilainen]

On 02/01/2013 04:47 PM, Tethys wrote:
>  On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Suvayu Ali
> <fatkasuvayu+linux(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>
> > This is "supposed" to work, but so far I haven't been successful.
> >
> > $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.a11y.keyboard slowkeys-enable false
>
>  It doesn't work for me either. I know nothing about gsettings, but I
>  suspect the reason it's not working is that I'm not running gnome. 
This workaround has reliably worked for me on all my systems:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=816764#c42

Then again, its supposed to be fixed in this update currently in testing:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-1632/gnome-settings-d...

	- Panu -

[Tethys]

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  This is "supposed" to work, but so far I haven't been
> successful.
>
>  $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.a11y.keyboard slowkeys-enable false 
It doesn't work for me either. I know nothing about gsettings, but I
suspect the reason it's not working is that I'm not running gnome.

Tet

-- 
"Java is a DSL for taking large XML files and converting them to stack
traces" -- Bulat Shakirzyanov

[Suvayu Ali]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 08:31:45PM +0000, Tethys wrote:
>  I, along with many others, have a frequent annoyance where SlowKeys
>  gets enabled in the X server. Yes, I can work around it by holding
>  down a shift key to turn it off again. 
This is "supposed" to work, but so far I haven't been successful.

$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.a11y.keyboard slowkeys-enable false

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.

[Tethys]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:47 PM, DJ Delorie <dj(a)delorie.com&gt; wrote:

>  The only "solution" I've found for this (other than
> hacking that feature
>  out of X ;) is to put this in my .xsession:
>
>  xkbset sl 1
>
>  This doesn't disable slow keys, but sets slow keys at the fastest
>  possible timeout so that the keyboard acts the same when slowkeys is
>  enabled. 
That seems to work. It's a kludge, but it works around the problem,
even if it doesn't actually fix it. Many thanks.

Tet

-- 
"Java is a DSL for taking large XML files and converting them to stack
traces" -- Bulat Shakirzyanov