Comment 7 for bug 41427

This happens to me dozens of times a day -- I often hold down the shift key while writing, as I prepare to type the first word of a sentence, with the rest of my fingers poised over the keyboard. Then i start typing and nothing comes out. I have to minimize several windows to find the "You held down the shift key for 8 seconds" dialog and close it. I'm using Feisty/Kubuntu.

I don't *ever* want to use slowkeys, for any reason. There should be a way to just turn slowkeys off permanently without leaving *any* shortcuts to turn it off. I've tried to uninstall slowkeys with Synaptic, but apparently it's part of a larger package.

This is the single biggest pain-point in my use of Linux. I've lost a TON of work by holding down the shift key, waiting for inspiration, being seized by it, typing joyously for a while, then noticng that the freaking keyboard as stopped working, finding the bloody slowkeys dialog, and nuking it, then trying to remember what it was I had planned on typing.

Cory