I also ran in to this usability bug. Which was very annoying, i as other didnt see any window popup before it was activated. I lost about 1 hour of work time just before a deadline. Because there was no clue that slow keys was enabled. I also tried reinstalling Xorg, an many other workarounds before accidently finding this thread / bugreport. So many other people must have lost time, and being confused and done stuff that could potentaially have damaged their systems.
Also i use openbox, (but tested out gnome) and therefore couldnt follow the menu1 - menu2 - menuetc. Hints some users have come up with. I also experienced earlier that this dialog appeared and i pressed cancel or escape, and i still got slow keys. i couldnt repeat that before. Funny note: ive experienced, similarly on windows xp. were it turned on slow keys even though i answered no. Is the accesibility feature copied, functionality wise from there? So here is a work around for nearly all wm / Desktop managers users (KDE also?) +++++++ I was unable to turn off slow-keys in gconf-editor, but I have figured out another way. Go to: System->Preferences->Keyboard at the bottom of the dialog box between Help and Close is "Accessibility..." press Accessibility The "Keyboard Accessibility Preferences" window opens. Un-check "Enable keyboard accessibility features" at the top of the box. That's it. I haven't had the "Slow Keys" dialog question come back ++++++++++++++++ I still miss some feedback from developers on this, since its very hard to understand why this feature is implemented like it is? michael -- "slow keys" can turn on surreptitiously & cause confusion. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/41427 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
