[ale] Linux for "normal" people?
Scott Castaline
hscast at charter.net
Tue Nov 16 14:55:05 EST 2004
I use KDE on my system and the path to "Sticky Keys" is:
Control Center -> Personalization -> Accessibility , select
keyboard tab.
The sticky keys is the first option.
Another Scott
Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
>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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