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
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.
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)
On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:47 PM, DJ Delorie dj@delorie.com 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
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
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com 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
On 02/01/2013 04:47 PM, Tethys wrote:
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com 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-daem...
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