Accessibility's "Slow Keys" always turns on on its own [SOLVED](kinda)

Question

The "Slow Keys" feature always turns on randomly when I for example just try to mark something with the mouse, holding down the shift key, this is on XFCE4.
In Applications Menu -> Accessories -> Accessiblity I already unchecked ALL boxes to try and disable it, but it doesn't work. What's more, when it turns on again (I notice this because it gives a little popup message) it's even still shown as "disabled" (ie check box is unchecked) in the AM->Acc->Acc config dialogue! I have to actually click it twice there (check + uncheck again) to disable it.
I tried to just uninstall 'atk' which seemed to provide Accessibility, but that didn't work out because gtk2/gtk3 depended on it.
Help please, how can I get rid of SlowKeys popping up once and for all?
Last edited by Jindur (2012-06-07 11:15:43)

Answer 1

Interesting, I actually do use gdm for logging in.
When I set up my Arch system I wanted to not install any gnome/kde stuff but only xfce, however, if I didn't use gdm for login manager but Slim (I think it was called, I followed the instructions on the archlinux page for that one actually) then I wouldn't have any sound in my xfce session. I was unable to find out why, alsamixer and everything seemed completely fine, yet there was not a single sound coming out, so I just went with gdm which seemed to do something magic to audio (or maybe Slim did something anti-magic).
I just searched in /etc for "accessibility" and got several results in these files:
1) /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/%gconf-tree.xml
2) /etc/dconf/db/gdm.d/00-upstream-settings
3) /etc/dconf/db/gdm.d/locks/00-upstream-settings-locks
as well as these two whose filenames seem unlikely to be involved in the problem:
4) /etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu
5) /etc/xdg/menus/arch-applications.menu
1) only seems to contain a menu structure in XML format, although it also has an entry "exec_ats" under "accessibility"->"startup"..
2) contains this:
  [org/gnome/desktop/interface]
  toolkit-accessibility=true
3) this, but since it's apparently a  "lock" file, I guess it is just created from 2)?:
  /org/gnome/desktop/interface/toolkit-accessibility
4) and 5) are XML menu structures again, which just mention "xfce-accessories.directory" and "Arch-Accessibility.directory". Seem unlikely to be a cause I guess.
I tried setting 2) to =false and commenting out the line in 3) but it didn't help.
I noticed however, that it seemed to take 10s rather than just 6s until slowkeys triggered, but might just be my nerves .
Last edited by Jindur (2012-06-07 10:44:16)