Comment 33 for bug 192508
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| Paul Ostby (postby) wrote Re: mouse keys turns on randomly | #33 |
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I have often encountered the evil twin of this bug. Mouse keys will switch off for no apparent reason. I certainly sympathize with the posters above. But I would add that, for those of us who use mouse keys, it is equally unpleasant to have it suddenly _stop_ working. (Many thanks to Mike who posted the Shift+Num Lock shortcut!)
I encountered this often in Feisty and Gutsy. It seems to happen less often in Hardy, though I just recently upgraded and haven't spent much time with Hardy yet. There is one difference though; in 7.04 and 7.10 when mouse keys switched off the "enable mouse keys" check box would become unchecked. But in 8.04 mouse keys will stop working while the check box remains checked.
I am not using a laptop keyboard and it seems very unlikely that I'm frequently hitting shift+num lock by accident. I am not logging in via remote desktop; remote desktop is not enabled on my machine.