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Re: disabling slowkeys in gdm3



On 2012-08-12 14:02:01 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> 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.

I think that if AccessX features haven't been used at this level,
the AccessX bit should be toggled back to off before starting the
user's X session. Then it's up to the desktop environment (if any)
to decide what to do.

See also discussions upstream (unrelated to gdm3):

  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52611

> > but apparently the solution is to use gconf-editor to disable it in
> > gdm3.
> 
> Yup, or so it says the bug report.

Another solution:

# apt-get install xkbset
$ xkbset -a

See <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=677173#168>.

This could be done in the user's ~/.xsession script or this could be
added into /etc/X11/Xsession.d/ (not tried).

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