Comment on Its most common use case is interrupting games

spudwart@spudwart.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• RedditWanderer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes if you hold “shift” for 5 seconds, it will attempt to turn on sticky keys, which makes individual key strokes act like if you were holding them down. Individually pressing ctrl, alt, del with sticky keys is like pressing ctrl+alt+del

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  • papalonian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Correction because I’m annoying: it’s when you press shift 5 times in a row. It would be terrible if just holding it down for 5 seconds activated it, haha

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    • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s both, different computers have different settings

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    • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ha ha, it’s still so fucking stupid though.

      Hey let’s activate hard disk defragmentation if you type 1 2 3 and 4 !!

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• TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Its a rite of passage for any computer with a freshly installed windows

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• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  KDE has an option to enable them if you want.

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  • 0x4E4F@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So does xfce.

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• root@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Was going to say, I don’t remember seeing this anytime recently, then remembered I’ve been daily driving Linux for like 5 years, lol.

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