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gnome-control-center package

  1. Bug #41427
  2. Comment #48

Comment 48 for bug 41427

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Lepe (alepe-com) wrote :

Sorry, I had to set this to "confirmed" as I think is a problem that affects many people. The only request that many of us are doing is to disable this function as default. This is my story:

Using: Xubuntu Quantal 32bits

I use one of my servers remotely using x11vnc + remmina. Sometimes it happens to me that one (virtual) key get stuck during the session (As it happens rarely, and it is fixed just by restarting the service, I'm not really bothered about it). While sometimes is an ALT key, a letter (easy to spot), this time was SHIFT. This triggered "Slow Keys" function automatically at the server (I was unable to see the notification). After that, I spent almost 2 weeks having really hard time operating it remotely. Fist I thought the remmina was not sending any keys. After trying other client without success, I blamed x11vnc. I spent a lot of time searching in x11vnc forums for an answer, tried all possible parameters, and nothing. It was driving me crazy!. I noticed that the key was actually being sent (debug with xev) but the key was not "resolved". Anyway, it was very confusing. After vacations, somehow it was fixed (probably after an update-restart). I didn't know what exactly happened until few minutes ago, that I was working on (physically) on the same server and I holded SHIFT key while I was thinking a piece of code. I was able to see the message this time! (XFCE notifications are set to show for 10 secs but it dissapeared after 1 or 2 secs :S ). After googling it (with some input difficulties), I finally learned about "slow keys" and how to disable it.

If I weren't looking at the screen at that right moment, I don't know how much time I could have spent trying to figure it out what was going on (again). I consider myself an experienced user, so I can imagine what inexperienced users may suffer with this kind of automatic feature. I sum my voice to all the people listed here (and to all of them that still don't know why their keyboard responses are delayed), to please disable the "hold-shift-key-N-secs-to-slow-keys" functionallity. Thanks!