Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-settings-daemon
Sticky keys offer a simpler way to initiate multi-key shortcuts involving modifiers. While handicapped users can certainly benefit, I believe sticky keys can be very powerful and useful for any user. It's common sense. It requires much less dexterity to enter three keys in sequence than trying to press them down all at once. However, the use of sticky keys can quickly become an annoyance when modifier keys are left in their sticky state. This happens to me all the time. I press down the modifier, but then perhaps I decide I don't need it. But you have to tend to it or else your next key or mouse button press is going to be combined with the active modifier. You deactive the key by pressing it again and again (or hitting Esc). What keeps biting me is the necessity to press the active modifier key twice rather than just once. You have to click the activate modifier twice to cycle through the locked sticky state, then on to the inactive state. In short, there are three states, instead of the desired two states: - inactive - active (transient) - locked I'm *constantly* banging on the keys to tare them (set them all inactive). I almost never want to use the locked state and cycling through it is a major annoyance. I'd like to be able to eliminate that state as an option. It should be noted that the sticky keys feature in KDE only has two states: inactive and active. There is no locked state. I think Gnome should at least accommodate that use case. ** Affects: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/695617 Title: offer two state toggle for sticky keys -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs