"Sticky keyboard" fault?

[Bob Marcan]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:14:52 +0100
Tethys <tethys at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > It's a massive usability fail, masquerading as an accessibility feature.
> 
> Yep. And there has been a depressing lack of willingness in the Fedora
> community to find out what's causing it. It spontaneously activates
> for me with no apparent trigger. I'm certainly not holding down the
> shift key for extended periods. From memory, this started happening
> some time around F17. Yes, I can disable it each time it happens, but
> it's a pain in the arse to have to do so. It seems to mostly be
> affecting those that aren't using the default desktop (I'm using fvwm
> here).
> 
> Tet
> 
> --
> "Java is a DSL for taking large XML files and converting them to stack
> traces" -- Bulat Shakirzyanov

I got the same symptoms when using gdm + fvwm.
With lightdm + fvwm are gone.

/usr/bin/xkbset -accessx is the cure under gdm.

BR, Bob