sticky keys

[Tim]

Tim:
>> I've been similarly caught, with older releases

Stuart McGraw:
> That doesn't sound quite like what I am seeing.  For me it seems
> the sticky keys or slow keys mode is being activated without needing
> any response from me, simply by my clicking the shift key quickly
> or holding it down too long.

Ah, but it /has/ been from you doing something.  Your non-standard use
of the shiftkey is the trigger (non-standard, in that you're not using
it to immediately type capital letters).  

Personally, I think using the shift key as the trigger is a rather poor
choice.  Since people typing a row of capital letters may use it instead
of the caps-lock, or they may be holding shift to mouse-select several
items.

> This happens despite my having disable all the assistive option in the
> settings Accessibility applet.

It looks like you hadn't, yet, turned off assistive features (because of
those annoying problems mentioned above).

As I recall, hanging on to the shift key is for activating some specific
features of an assistive technology, rather than the overall on/off of
assistive technologies.  Turn off the master switch, and the individual
features are permanently disabled.

Since I turned off the overall thing on my installation, I haven't had
the individual features pop up and annoy me.  If the feature had been
activated at the logon screen, I think it carries over into the session.
Otherwise, you'd turn them on, post logon.

For what it's worth, I'm running the MATE desktop on Fedora 20, on this
particular computer.  I don't like the way the Gnome 3 desktop works.

An alternative thing for you to follow up:  Find the keyboard
preferences, see if it has an accessibility section, and options for
accessibility features being controlled by hotkeys.

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