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Slow keys are killing me - the solution #keyboard #x

🕝︎ - 2012-08-04
Notification about sticky keys Recently I have been leaning a lot on my shift keys, it seems.

This turns on Slow Keys on my machine, which is exceedingly annoying - XFCE doesn't even acknowledge that they keyboard shortcut for activating this, probably very important if you need it, functionality has been hit.

The sequence roughly is:

If you search for this problem, you will find that people have been complaining and discussing it for years and years.

Here is the pragmatic solution: apt-get install xkbset + add xkbset -accessx to your startup (session, script, whatever).

Hooray.

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