Slow keys are killing me - the solution #keyboard #x
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:
- "Uh oh, my keyboard doesn't work?!?"
- See the notification about slow keys
- Curse
- Go to the Settings → Accessibility menu, activate Slow keys, then deactivate Slow Keys
- Yay
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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