[desktop-discuss] Gnome thinks that my compose key is stuck

[Calum Benson]

On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 10:57 -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:

> For Windows, its less than that I think.  I usually press Shift to 
> deactivate screen savers (because shift is benign, at least usually), 
> but on my wife's Windows machine, it seems to bring up the sticky keys 
> prompt.  I've never seen that occur on X.

It's definitely 5 on my XP box, and according to
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301583.  Note that *holding* Shift for a
few seconds will activate SlowKeys, though, which may be what you're
seeing.  (This is also the same shortcut as in JDS.)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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