Bug 1473

Summary: wish: sticky keys enhancements (timeout, disable beep, not Ctrl-Alt-Bksp)
Product: xorg Reporter: Richard Neill <freedesktop>
Component: Server/Input/CoreAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: high CC: hhielscher, sliedes
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard: 2011BRB_Reviewed
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Richard Neill 2004-09-26 10:06:08 UTC 
There are a few ways I think that sticky keys could be improved. 

1)An optional timeout of say, 50 ms. This would be useful to me, as an imprecise
typist. For example, when I type '*' or '~', I sometimes release the shift-key
slightly too early and get '8' or '#' instead. Therefore, I have sticky keys
enabled (which works brilliantly as a solution). However, I don't want the
modifier to stick for very long, as it can have unintended consequences. 

2)Another useful option would be to disable the beep. DVD players often fake a
shift-key keypress to prevent the screensaver activating - and this causes the
system to beep.  [(1) should probably imply this by default]

3)I crashed my system accidentally - I wanted Ctrl-Backspace, and got
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace!
Perhaps sticky keys should not stick the combinations:
Ctrl-Alt-[Del|Backspace|Esc]  ? 
(It's too easily done! Although I have now turned on DontZap in xorg.conf)


I originally reported this to KDE - please see here:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88859

Thank you very much.
Comment 1 Bill Haneman 2005-05-16 10:56:33 UTC 
#2 exists, as part of the XKB API.  The GNOME keyboard accessibility prefs
dialog exposes this as a checkbox, you can turn off the beep notifications.
Comment 2 Sami Liedes 2007-01-09 15:22:24 UTC 
Another nice enhancement would be the ability to handle e.g. ctrl+mousebutton 
as an event equivalent to e.g. ctrl+someletter in that it would not make ctrl 
stick.
Comment 3 Daniel Stone 2007-02-27 01:24:14 UTC 
Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys.  Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.
Comment 4 Daniel Stone 2007-04-07 14:51:50 UTC 
indeed, configurable timeouts and refusing actions from sticky keys would be nice.  (ctrl-alt-del we can do nothing about: x doesn't handle that.)
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