Re: disabling slowkeys in gdm3
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:17:43 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> I've also run into the problem with slowkeys automatically turning
> itself on when I hold the shift key too long, as described in
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=657969
>
> It isn't clear to me why the display manager has anything to do with
> this,
Well, it makes sense because the login manager is in charge of setting up
some basic pre-environmental values, like keyboard layout or mouse
options.
> but apparently the solution is to use gconf-editor to disable it in
> gdm3.
Yup, or so it says the bug report.
> If I start up gconf-editor, I don't see any configuration options for
> gdm3 nor simple-greeting. So far I've tried
>
> gconf-editor
> sudo gconf-editor
> sudo -u Debian-gdm gconf-editor
Mmm... are you on Squeezy or testing?
Anyway, you should run "gconfig-editor" from your current user and in the
event you can't locate the key, you can search for "simple-greeter" (no
"simple-greeting").
> (I should note that gdm actually runs as root on my system -- so I'm not
> sure what the Debian-gdm user is actually for?)
AFAIK, there's no need to play with that.
> My question, of course, is "what am I missing"? What do I need to do to
> make gdm3 configuration visible in gconf-editor?
You can also try using the command line, e.g.,:
First, to retrieve the current value:
gconftool-2 -g /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/settings-manager-plugins/a11y-keyboard/active
And then you can disable with:
gconftool-2 -s -t bool /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/settings-manager-plugins/a11y-keyboard/active false
THT.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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