On Mon, 2022-06-27 at 20:20 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
I dimly recall an "accessibility" feature that emulate caps lock if you pressed the shift key a "long time". (Maybe it wasn't caps lock but some other helpful feature.) Drove me crazy because I have a tendency to linger over the shift key while deciding how to start the next sentence, and sometimes I guess I didn't linger over it, but on it. I could type again once I discovered that feature and turned it off :-).
That sounds vaguely familiar. A lot of typists will do that, so not really a good choice.
Another trigger was pressing the shift key several times to turn on an accessibility feature (I don't recall if this was on Linux). Again, not a great idea. A lot of people will tap on the shift key to wake up a sleeping monitor, in the belief that as pressing the shift key by itself won't do anything, it's safe to tap it when you can't see the screen display. Ordinarily, that would be true.
Though, generally speaking, those accessibility features had to be turned on and in standby for them to respond to the trigger.