sticky keys

[Stuart McGraw]

On 03/31/2015 05:41 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 11:58:53PM -0600, Stuart McGraw wrote:
>> And yet another problem with Fedora-21...
>>
>> When I press my Shift keys quickly a few times (which I often
>> do unconsciously while thinking about what to type), I get a
>> notification that "sticky keys have been enabled".  I then
>> get a lot of odd keyboard effects such as every word typed
>> being capitalized or the keyboard acting like the control key
>> is permanently pressed.
>>
>> Googling seems to indicate this is an old problem going back
>> to the mid-2000's.
>
> It's a feature, to enable sticky keys as needed.  I had the same problem
> with some older release of XFCE.  I solved it by disabling all assistive
> technologies, as I do not need them.  If this is true for you too, you
> can disable it by unchecking the "Enable assistive technologies" option
> in the "Assistive Technologies" tab in Settings > Accesibility.

Yup, did that.  Multiple times. :-)  I even looked at that dialog
right after the sticky keys feature became active and all the
checkboxes were still unchecked.