[kde-freebsd] self missconfiguration of "Use slow keys"

[Dwayne MacKinnon]

On March 4, 2012 03:26:02 AM Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Wednesday, February 29, 2012 a las 09:30:50AM -0500, Dwayne 
MacKinnon escribió:
> > I believe it's possible to activate slow keys just by holding some keys
> > for longer then normal. A dialog box will ask to confirm, but depending
> > on how you're typing, I can easily see someone hitting "enter" and
> > accepting it without realizing.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > DMK
> 
> Dwayne,
> 
> Do you (or anyone else) know, how this option 'activate slow key' works
> exactly with the X-server, i.e. how this delay is activated in the X?
> While still investigating the problem when it occured in the laptop of
> my wife, I even saw in xev(1) that the keystrokes are delayed sent
> to the xev(1) client, i.e. the delay must be in X and not in KDE.
> I've checked the man page of xset(1) but only see the delay and rate of
> 'auto repeat', but no config value for delay of key itself.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 	matthias


Hey Matthias,

I'm afraid I've never looked into the mechanics behind the feature. Heck, I've 
never even used slow keys; I just know the feature exists and what little I 
told you before.

Cheers,
DMK