Comment 46 for bug 996801

(In reply to comment #14)
> I'm a bit puzzled because I too ran into this issue a couple weeks ago, and so
> did two others that I know who are running Debian. The fact that several people
> have been hit by this in such a short time seemed coincidental to me

gdm3 turns the AccessX bit on. Then it remains enabled after you log in, even if the resulting environment doesn't know how to cope with that.

After http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/10795/ desktop environments should be able to more easily notice that Slow Keys has been enabled and throw up a popup. The discussion here has focused on how to avoid spuriously enabling Slow Keys in the first place, which seems useful because when such a popup appears it is still an interuption to work and a usability problem.