[u-a-dev] [Bug 41427] Re: "slow keys" can turn on surreptitiously & cause confusion.

[doctorow]

This happens to me dozens of times a day -- I often hold down the shift
key while writing, as I prepare to type the first word of a sentence,
with the rest of my fingers poised over the keyboard. Then i start
typing and nothing comes out. I have to minimize several windows to find
the "You held down the shift key for 8 seconds" dialog and close it. I'm
using Feisty/Kubuntu.

I don't *ever* want to use slowkeys, for any reason. There should be a
way to just turn slowkeys off permanently without leaving *any*
shortcuts to turn it off. I've tried to uninstall slowkeys with
Synaptic, but apparently it's part of a larger package.

This is the single biggest pain-point in my use of Linux. I've lost a
TON of work by holding down the shift key, waiting for inspiration,
being seized by it, typing joyously for a while, then noticng that the
freaking keyboard as stopped working, finding the bloody slowkeys
dialog, and nuking it, then trying to remember what it was I had planned
on typing.

Cory

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"slow keys" can turn on surreptitiously & cause confusion.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/41427
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