Unintended slow keys looks like bug

[Fred H Olson]

This is more of a "feature" than a bug... If slow keys gets turned on somehow and the user is not aware of this,
it can look like the keyboard is not working. I spent days (10?) with the consultation of my local Ubuntu folks before someone
finally thought of slow keys. One suggestion was to reinstall Ubuntu, fortunately I resisted this long enough to
learn of slow keys. This has been my most frustrating problem with Ubuntu (since 6.06)

It appears that in normal use, the chance of holding down a key long enough that it is accepted when one
is not aware of slow keys is very small so it just looks like the keyboard input is not being accepted.

There are a few other instances of this problem on the web but not enough to become a prime suspect easily.

I dont know how slow keys got turned on.

I suggest having a box appear at bootup that reminds the user:

>Universal Access >Typing Slow Keys is active. Hold keys down to get input accepted.

Fred

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: unity 7.2.2+14.04.20140714-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-35.62-generic 3.13.11.6
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-35-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.4
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Sep 26 08:05:58 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-08-19 (37 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)