wish: sticky keys enhancements (timeout, disable beep, not Ctrl-Alt-Bksp)
Submitted by Richard Neill
Assigned to Xorg Project Team
Description
There are a few ways I think that sticky keys could be improved.
1)An optional timeout of say, 50 ms. This would be useful to me, as an imprecise typist. For example, when I type '*' or '~', I sometimes release the shift-key slightly too early and get '8' or '#' instead. Therefore, I have sticky keys enabled (which works brilliantly as a solution). However, I don't want the modifier to stick for very long, as it can have unintended consequences.
2)Another useful option would be to disable the beep. DVD players often fake a shift-key keypress to prevent the screensaver activating - and this causes the system to beep. [(1) should probably imply this by default]
3)I crashed my system accidentally - I wanted Ctrl-Backspace, and got Ctrl-Alt-Backspace! Perhaps sticky keys should not stick the combinations: Ctrl-Alt-[Del|Backspace|Esc] ? (It's too easily done! Although I have now turned on DontZap in xorg.conf)
I originally reported this to KDE - please see here: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88859
Thank you very much.