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Michael D. Hirsch wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 13:55, Scott Warfield wrote:
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>>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.
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>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?  :-)
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>>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.
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>Also easy.  Control Center -> Peripherals -> Mouse and select
>Left-handed.
>
>Michael
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