Comment 6 for bug 192508

At launchpad William Woelke wrote:
"I am using Hardy Heron and several times now I have tried to use my number pad only to discover that they now move the mouse. I don't know if there is a short cut key I am hitting on accident, but it is rather annoying. Then sometimes when I disable mouse keys, the numlock becomes switched so that the system thinks numlock is on when the light is off and vice-versa."

John added:
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I've been having this problem too on 7.10. If there is a short-cut key to turn this on and off, it should be documented and have the option to disable it.

In "Keyboard Accessibility Preferences", I have the "Enable keyboard accessibility preferences" unchecked. The "Enable Mouse Keys" checkbox is usually unchecked and inactive. However, whenever mouse keys turns itself on, the "Enable Mouse Keys" checkbox becomes checked and inactive even though the "Enable keyboard accessibility preferences" checkbox remains unchecked.

Apparently, mouse keys does not respect the state of the "Enable keyboard accessibility preferences" checkbox. It will become enabled even though I've in spite of my preferences.

To disable mouse keys I have to check "Enable keyboard accessibility preferences" (to make "Enable Mouse Keys" active) , uncheck "Enable Mouse Keys" and then uncheck "Enable keyboard accessibility preferences".

Too many steps to disable a feature that shouldn't be enabled in the first place."

Denis Washington explained it this way at GNOME(http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=519713):
"The problem is that the XkbAccessKeys flag, which we set to enable or disable
the accessibility feature shortcuts, is not respected for the mouse keys
shortcut in the X.org server. So to fix this, XkbAccessKeys should also toggle
the mouse key shorcut. In any case, this is a problem with the X servers and
the XKB specification and not one of gnome-control-center, so I this bug should
probably be marked NOTGNOME."

If you need more information, please look in the bug reports at GNOME and Launchpad and if you need more don't hesitate to ask. At the moment more information is being gathered at Launchpad.

Sense Hofstede