Re: disabling slowkeys in gdm3
Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> writes:
> 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?
testing.
gconf-editor is version 3.0.1-1
gdm3 is version 3.4.1-2
> 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").
Didn't turn up in the search.
>> (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
Reported no such key was set
> And then you can disable with:
>
> gconftool-2 -s -t bool /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/settings-manager-plugins/a11y-keyboard/active false
snowball:504$ gconftool-2 -u /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/settings-manager-plugins/a11y-keyboard/active
snowball:505$ gconftool-2 -g /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/settings-manager-plugins/a11y-keyboard/active
No value set for `/apps/gdm/simple-greeter/settings-manager-plugins/a11y-keyboard/active'
snowball:506$ gconftool-2 -s -t bool /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/settings-manager-plugins/a11y-keyboard/active false
snowball:507$ gconftool-2 -g /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/settings-manager-plugins/a11y-keyboard/active
false
But it still sets it when I hold the shift key for a while.
Also tried with sudo just for good measure; still no luck.
> THT.
>
> Greetings,
>
> --
> Camaleón
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