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

[Garrett D'Amore]

Calum Benson wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 06:45 -0700, Paul Wernau wrote:
>   
>>  Similar to the hit the space bar 5 times on Windows and enable sticky
>> keys and everything gets selected without holding the mouse down (a
>> friend just called me last week freaking about about that).
>>     
>
> To be pedantic, it's not Space, it's Shift (which you're much less
> likely to push five times in a row)... this is the same shortcut that
> JDS, or more specifically, X, uses to activate StickyKeys as well.
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
>
>   

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.

    -- Garrett