Bug 227740

Summary:	"Deactivate All AccessX Features & Gestures" never works
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	Russ Brown <pickscrape>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	ben, gunnar
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
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Description Russ Brown 2010-02-19 21:52:32 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.4.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

From time to time I accidentally hit a particular keyboard combination that causes KDE to pop up a dialog box which offers me the option of enabling an Accessibility Tool.

This consists of a dropdown containing three options, a Yes button and a No button.

Each time, I select the option "Deactivate all AccessX Features & Gestures", and hit the No button, since I don't want "Mouse Keys" (or whatever it is) to be turned on.

However, every now and then I hit the same combination again, and again the dialog pops up and asks me the same question.

It seems that it is not remembering my response. Either that or I actually need to press "Yes" in order to confirm my options, but that is contrary to the question being asked by the dialog box, and if that is the case it may indicate that the wording in the dialog needs to be tweaked.

Comment 1 Thomas Lübking 2010-02-19 22:26:36 UTC

systemsettings -> accessibility -> "activation gestures", uncheck "use gestures
for activating..." you probably need to logout/in afterwards (i've no idea what
controls this, might be kded4, might be an X thing)

... and don't say "yes" sticky keys could be the "keyboard not working" stuff -
you need to press any key for half a second before it's acceped :-\

Comment 2 Russ Brown 2010-02-19 22:42:44 UTC

Hmm, I actually do have that option off already. The only two that I have checked are:

"Use the system bell ....."
"Show a confirmation dialog whenever a keyboard accessibility feature is turned on or off"

This second looks like it may be related, but the thing is I didn't explicitly turn the feature on: it was turned on by way of an accidental gesture, which is supposedly turned off anyway. :)

Comment 3 Russ Brown 2010-02-23 16:11:42 UTC

This just happened to me again but this time I was able to replay what I did. If you do SHIFT+NumLock, the dialog pops up. Tell it to turn off features and gestures and hit No, then do it again and up pops the dialog again.

Comment 4 Ben Creasy 2018-02-23 21:20:05 UTC

If this is happening with KDE 5, please leave a comment.