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Subject: Re: [Kde-accessibility] KDE access utility tool has disabled my
From: Olaf Schmidt <ojschmidt () kde ! org>
Date: 2007-12-14 20:19:29
Message-ID: 200712142119.30730.ojschmidt () kde ! org
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Hi!
Thanks for your email.
You can return your keyboard to normal operation by starting kcontrol, going
to "Regional & Accessibility" > "Accessibility", and making sure that all
checkboxes in the tabs "Modifier Keys", "Keyboard Filters" and "Activation
Gestures" are unchecked.
You can also delete (or rename) $HOME/.kde/share/kaccess.rc to restore your
system to default values.
From your report it sounds as if somehow the "Slow keys" function was
activated through that keyboard gesture. This is a function needed by some
users with disabilities and means that you need to press each key a few
seconds before the key press is registered.
I do not know why clicking "Deactivate all AccessX gestures and functions" did
not work for you. It always worked for every KDE version I used. I just
tested again with KDE 3.5.8.
Perhaps this is a bug in the X11 library installed on you computer (which is
unrelated to KDE). Perhaps one of the non-KDE applications used by you
interfered. (In this case you might also have to restore the equivalent GNOME
settings, but fortunately this is very unlikely.) Perhaps it is a
distribution-specific bug not present in the original KDE code. I do not
know. I can only say that this is not KDE's normal behaviour.
For one of the next KDE versions, we plan to have a big warning applet shown
whenever any of the AccessX features is activated. This applet would then
allow to quickly switch off everything AccessX related.
Olaf Schmidt
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