This just happened to me on feisty. The "You held down the shift key
for 8 seconds, do you want to activate slow keys" dialog was on my
screen, but hidden behind another window. The feature was activated,
and when I deactivated it, everything was back to normal.
My machine was not under heavy IO
This also applies to KDE in feisty. It is set to sound the bell by
default but that's not much help with sounds turned off. You can turn
it off (under system settings->accessibility->use gestures) at least,
and also configure it to display a notification; I think that the
notification ought to be
This is still a problem in Feisty. It's definitely not caused by load,
Slow Keys is being enabled without warning, and there's no obvious
documentation on how it's turned on or off.
There's no way to disable "automatic" Slow Keys without disabling all
keyboard accessibility features. This problem
I can confirm this has happened to me too (edgy beta). Somehow this got
turned on (no idea how) and it took me two days to work out what was
wrong.
Gnome worked fine in failsafe mode, but in normal mode it seemed the
keyboard was being ignored. It turns out I just wasn't holding down the
keys for
It definitely turned on: I even rebooted and it was still on because
gnome remembers its slow-keys activation state.
Really, gnome needs to show some kind of obvious visual indication
that slow keys has been activated---so if it gets turned on for
whatever reason (imagine that some prankster turns
Thanks for your report. I'm personally not convinced that the sticky
keys feature (that's the only one I can think of) was turned on. If a
machine is has a very high load and lots of IO happens, key events are
processed in a slower way.
** Changed in: meta-gnome2 (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: meta-g
