[ale] Linux for "normal" people?

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 13:55, Scott Warfield wrote:
> I refer to Sticky keys by way of the window's terminology that enables a
> user to press shift, control, and alt so that the next key pressed is
> applied.  The usefulness of this comes into play when a user can only time
> with a single finger or other prosthetic.  It would be nice to see this as
> several layers such as the kernel to allow this feature during a commandline
> session, and X to be applied to all aspects of X-Windows irregardless of
> window manager.

This is quite easy in KDE.  In the Control Center, go to Regional &
Accessibility -> Accessibility, select the Keyboard tab and then select
"Use sticky keys".  It only affect programs running under X windows, but
it affects them all, even non-KDE apps.  And what would a "normal"
person be doing outside of X, anyway?  :-)

> Reversing the mouse buttons is an ergonomical issue.  In my case I can
> rotate my hand to the right much easier than the left, so I revearse my
> buttons for ease of use.  Unfortunately, I have not had much luck using this
> feature out of KDE.

Also easy.  Control Center -> Peripherals -> Mouse and select
Left-handed.

Michael