Since a few months, I have a cat, which likes to disrupt me watching movies and interrupts video sconferences on my laptop (no external screen, keyboard or mouse) by walking on the keyboard, touchpad and "pressing" things. I would love to have a 3 key-short-cut, which turns off all input from the keyboard and/or touchpad after pressing this combination until this short-cut is pressed again (thus it should still be able to receive input from at least these keys if they are pressed at the same time). In the forum someone suggested the shortcut to be Metha-Shift-Paws (which is very unfortunately that the later key does not exist) ;-) If this is implemented, I am sure KDE / Plasma is closer to world domination ;-)
This is a pretty hilarious use case. If we implemented such a thing, it would need to be off by default (or have no shortcut by default), to prevent people from triggering it by accident and locking *themselves* out of their computers! That's probably what the cats are trying to get us to do.
I agree. It is hilarious. I also assume, I am not alone. I agree, it should be off by default, but somehow discoverable.
Doing a brief internet search, I found other valid use-cases different people have had for this kind of shortcut - Cleaning the keyboard / mouse - Preventing unwanted input when a keyboard is in a backpack during transit - Preventing unwanted chatter from a keyboard with misfiring keys I'll set this to confirmed so the developers can consider it