SlowKey delay not disabled after activation

[oneri]

If SHIFT key is long pressed system activates the slow keys accessibility.
BUG: After press SHIFT five times to disable this feature SlowKeys delay as setted to 50 (default value) and keyboard still stay under this feature (but in interface xfce4-settings-manager its shows as disabled)

restore normal key functionality may be done by this command
xfconf-query -c accessibility -p /SlowKeys/Delay -s 0

PS That normal users, that makes long SHIFT press first time a not notified about enabling accessibility feature and may restore normal functionality only after reboot. So need a nofication to users about enabling accessibility

[nirik (kevin-scrye)]

Downstream bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=835740

(and before it: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=816764 )

Unchecking the 'Use slow keys' box in accessability prefs doesn't seem to disable it.
Holding down a key for 10 seconds enables it.

I don't know if the X setting to disable this changed or what.

Happy to gather more info, etc.

[Jeromeg (jeromeg)]

This is because the dialog just updates the Xfconf properties which are only read when launching xfsettingsd. There is currently no channel monitoring for those properties.

Thus, at the moment, it's more "Enable **** on startup".

[nirik (kevin-scrye)]

Sadly it also seems to be a gdm bug where it turns it on somehow and xfsettingsd can't/doesn't unset it.

Using lightdm/etc it works as you note to enable/disable on boot.

[oneri (oneri-yandex)]

Additional info
Affects on:

user:ubuntu~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=quantal
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.10"

lastes updates from ubuntu repo installed

[Jeromeg (jeromeg)]

That was a bug in gdm / gnome-settings-daemon which is now fixed upstream: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685063.

[Thaddaeus Tintenfisch (thad-fisch-deactivatedaccount)]

Is this bug still reproducible (Ubuntu 14.04 and up)?

[Theo Linkspfeifer (lastonestanding)]

Closing due to lack of activity.