On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:16:34 +0100 "Richard W.M. Jones" rjones@redhat.com wrote:

I filed a bug about this, but I've no idea what component to file it against, so it's against something fairly random:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=816764

After updating Fedora 17 to latest a couple of days ago, my keyboard keeps "dying".

In fact I found out that what's happening is an accessibility feature called "slow keys" is getting activated. Unfortunately this is activated silently, so there is no indication what has happened, nor how to revert it. This is going to cause a lot of problems for less technical users, since the only way out for them is to reboot.

Also, in the Accessibility menu, it shows that "slow keys" is disabled. You have to enable and disable it (using the mouse) in order to fix the bug.

And it keeps happening too ... It's happened twice already this morning. I don't know what I am doing/pressing which starts this off.

I've also run into this, but been unsure whats causing it.

I'm running Xfce here, but it might be a gnome component thats causing it. Slow keys is off in all the Xfce prefs and in Accessablity prefs... but yet it's still turning on. ;(

It does pop up a notification, but it's still anoying.

I would be VERY happy to have a fix for this. ;)

kevin