stickykeys behaving unpredictably

[truant]

Binary package hint: gnome-applets

Stickykeys hasn't worked properly for a while. See here for previous issues: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/191181

Since upgrading to jaunty, the above problem doesn't occur - it seems to remember it's settings. However, it's not quite behaving as expected. Several issues appear to be happening, haven't yet been able to determine how to reproduce both.

OK, when it's working (ie, when keys can be stuck/locked and the notification applet lights up), mouse clicks are not registered as events. Eg: I hit ctrl, once. This lights up the [^] icon on the notification applet. I would normally expect the key to unlock after pressing a key or clicking the mouse. Pressing a key causes the expected behavior, but clicking a mouse button does not. This remains consistent while stickykeys is responding.

However, sometimes the whole stickykeys business just stop working. Gconf/accessibility applet reports stickykeys is enabled, but the notification applet will not light up when pressing a key. Stickykeys is not enabled. I haven't yet found a workaround/fix other than restarting X and hoping it works. This problem is not consistent.

Not sure if gnome-applets is where the problem lies, but it's the package that has the notification applet in, and seemed the most appropriate from the likely looking choices. If anyone knows better than I, please do leave a comment.

mat@ione:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04

mat@ione:~$ apt-cache policy gnome-applets
gnome-applets:
  Installed: 2.26.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.26.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.26.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.26.0-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The ubuntu team doesn't have the ressources to work on this specific issue but it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[truant (launchpad-ninj4)]

Right you are. Thanks Sebastian.

Reported here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584938

I think this is a Gnome thing not an X thing, but you never know. Stickykeys seems to work in KDE, so suspect it's Gnome.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for sending the bug to GNOME

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 209532, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.