Version: (using KDE KDE 3.2.3) Installed from: Mandrake RPMs OS: Linux I think it would be a really useful feature to have a timeout on the sticky keys. This might help in 2 different cases: 1)I am a reasonable typist, but often find that I lift my finger off the shift-key slightly too early when typing a symbol such as '>'. I am doing the following: (i) Right-hand-finger5 press right-hand shift (ii) Right-hand-finger5 release right-hand shift (iii) Right-hand-finger2 press '.>' iv) Right-hand-finger2 release '.>' whereas of course ii,iii are in the wrong order! Sticky keys is a great help here, but coupled with my other bad habit of sometimes pressing shift while "thinking", and then releasing it (much like a chess player when debating a move!), I often find that I get spurious caps. I'd like to set a sticky key timeout of about 50ms. 2)DVD players such as Xine fake a "shift" keypress every minute to prevent the screensaver activating. This leaves the shift key stuck down. It also causes KDE to beep once a minute while the movie is playing! It would also be nice to have the option of disabling the "beep" that sticky keys emits. Thank you very much
I also recently crashed my system this way: I wanted Ctrl-Backspace, and I got Ctrl-Alt-Backspace! Oops! Perhaps sticky keys shouldn't stick that particular combination?
Sticky keys are a feature provided by the X server, KDE only turns it on. Please direct your requests at the X developers.
Thank you for your explanation: I have reported it to Xorg here: http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1473 If they implement the feature request, then perhaps KDE will be able to add the GUI.