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dryder
June 5th, 2008, 03:55 AM
For those who are having trouble with the system turning off sticky-keys if two keys are pressed or if a modifier key is pressed with another key, I found a setting in Configuration Editor which has stopped that misbehaviour - for me. So, in case it helps others:

In Assistive Technologies Preferences > Keyboard Accessibility > Accessibility tab, I have always set:
1. Simulate simultaneous keypress - ticked
2. Disable sticky keys if two keys are pressed - never ticked
Notifications: General:
3. Beep when accessibility features are turned on or off - ticked
4. Beep when toggle key is pressed - ticked
Sticky Keys:
5. Beep when a modifier key is pressed - ticked

However, despite 2. above, I found 100% of the time pressing a modifier key and another key undid my settings. Very annoying with a trembling hand!

Then I looked in Configuration Editor:
Applications > System Tools > Configuration Editor > desktop > gnome > accesibility > keyboard.

I noticed that 'stickykeys_two_key_off' was still ticked which did not seem logical given my choices. So I unselected it and since then have not had a problem.

Hope this helps and works for you - sorry, I don't know a CLI way of doing it.

David

Administrators - can this be made sticky? It appears to be a/the solution judging by Launchpad bug reports posts.

Paul S
June 5th, 2008, 06:50 PM
Yes, it's a great help. I couldn't figure out why sticky keys work so well on kde and xfce, but shut off quickly on gnome. This seems to be the fix!

truant
June 6th, 2008, 09:15 AM
Dryder, you're my hero. Thanks also to Paul for hitting up the bugs in launchpad so I knew to come here.

One thing it might be worth mentioning for other people, is where the launcher for Configuration Editor is (I typed gconf-editor into a terminal, but I know some users are less confident with the commandline)

dryder
June 16th, 2008, 01:06 AM
The plot thickens -

My computer suddenly switched itself off on Friday night. Turned on computer and continual "beep-beep-beep..."

Techinician comes out Sunday. Reseats (just pushes in) all boards, memory and CPU.

Turn on computer. Recovers from sudden turn off.

Aha - Assistive Technology settings need redoing. OK.

Firefox mod to backspace key to make it go back a page still works - great!

Two keys pressed at once - oops, Sticky keys turns off.

Check Configuration Editor as in first post and 'stickykeys_two_key_off' is ticked again! Untick it as per my first post and all is OK.

So, doesn't Assistive Technologies have a user configuration file somewhere that remembers a user's settings like other apps do and can recover properly after a crash?

Writers of this App - please ... if other apps and setings are remebered why aren't Assistive Technolgies'?

More work on this app methinks, please?

Paul S - where is the Launchpad bug report you filed?

izmeh
July 13th, 2008, 06:26 PM
if you don't have the option in menus


sudo /.gconf/desktop/gnome/accessibility/keyboard

dryder
July 13th, 2008, 10:41 PM
if you don't have the option in menusIf you mean Applications>System Tools>Configuration Editor, it is in the menus and accessible.
If you mean System>Preferences>Assistive Technologies, it also is in the menu.

I am referring to the config file that loads at start-up. If there is a 'default' file that loads if the file with my changed settings is not available I would like to know where it is so I can modify the 'default' settings.


sudo /.gconf/desktop/gnome/accessibility/keyboarddoesn't do anything in terminal -'command not found'.
David

Paul S
August 3rd, 2008, 12:13 AM
Paul S - where is the Launchpad bug report you filed?

I must be losing my mind, because I can't find it anymore. But, I did file another related one on OOO misbehaving https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/240933

Sorry for the late reply.

workshop1702
March 23rd, 2009, 11:53 PM
absolutley fantastic , i have been trying to cure this for over 18months my sticky keys stays on know even if i press two keys together , your suggestion to use the configuration manager and untick 'stickykeys_two_key_off has worked a treat just a shame i didnt come across you 18 months ago . thanks very much you have definatley made my day . Andrew