Re: disabling slowkeys in gdm3
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> writes:
> 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>.
It worked! Thank you!
> 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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