[ale] Linux for "normal" people?

[Scott Warfield]

Most of my testing and evaluation of these features was done on Fedora Core
1.  Even though they technically work, it is my opinion that they are buggy
at best.  Sticky keys did not apply to the login manager and therefore
procluded me from logging in with mixed passwords of metacharacters.
Perhaps FC3 will show some improvement with the new KDE.  

Within the next few days I will be upgrading my primary Linux system to FC3.
I'll look at them again and see if it changes my opinion.  

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Scott Warfield
Internet Security Systems
X-Force Developer
 
swarfield at iss.net
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-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Michael
D. Hirsch
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 2:30 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: RE: [ale] Linux for "normal" people?


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

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