Is this a windows joke I’m too linux to understand?
Its most common use case is interrupting games
Submitted 11 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to [deleted]
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spudwart@spudwart.com 11 months ago
RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 11 months 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
papalonian@lemmy.world 11 months 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
TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Its a rite of passage for any computer with a freshly installed windows
marcos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
KDE has an option to enable them if you want.
0x4E4F@infosec.pub 11 months ago
So does xfce.
root@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 11 months ago
[deleted]FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sorry I can’t read. Can you just tell us?
dingus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Would you like to enable sticky keys?
Darken@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Pio piao peeoop
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 11 months ago
Gah, no! I’m never going to want to. Stop asking.
KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Fun fact: A common way to get access to SYSTEM (higher than admin) privileges on Windows is the sethc exploit, where you replacr sethc (the program that shows the sticky keys dialog) with command prompt, and it gets started as SYSTEM, the only thing needed is write access to System32, which can either be from an admin account or by editing the file system externally. This also allows opening a command prompt on the login screen, allowing some cursed things, like if you start explorer.exe on the login screen it combines the desktop and login screen
ivanafterall@kbin.social 11 months ago
I don't know that there's a point to them, so much as I just lose all motivation and fall straight to sleep after finishing my porn sessions.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
It helps in Minecraft by holding the mouse button for you while you dig straight down into magma.
kn33@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s an accessibility thing. If you can’t press two keys at once, then you can turn it on and press the modifier key, then the active key.
ZILtoid1991@kbin.social 11 months ago
It would be nice if the default wasn't being on, or it asked during installation or something.
LemmyFeed@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I bet someone who needs it likes that it’s on by default.
TulipanJones@kbin.social 11 months ago
It asks when you do it the first time lol, although asking at installation might be a better idea
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 11 months ago
And that’s all fine and dandy.
If it didn’t randomly decide to turn on.
kn33@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It turns on when you tap shift 5 times in a row. It also has a pop up when it turns on giving you a link to the setting to turn off that behavior. Just turn it off when it happens if you aren’t going to use it.
kubica@kbin.social 11 months ago
I usually have it turned off. But I found it kinda useful once that I had a cast in one hand.
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 11 months ago
I feel slightly less annoyed with life, now that I know this
Kyyrypyy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That is actualla good feature then, if you need it for accessibility… But why on earth does it need to prompt you to enable it with such an annoying way? To my knowledge, it’s the only accessibility option that agressively advertises itself specifically when you don’t want, or need, it to.
More logical behaviour to prompt the enabling would be if a “modifier” key, and “non-modifier” key is pressed in sequence, but not at the same time. As the assumption of sticky keys is that the user is not able to press two buttons down simultaneously.
That said, it is likely that a person who has need for this feature, but is not aware of it’s excistence, would not use other modifiers than shift, as they are needed exclusively for hotkeys, which is on the far end of the learning curve (as mouse, and right klick are more apparent to learn), and if such feature is needed, it’s excistence is apparent at the time you start to use the systems via hotkeys. Instead, if you hammer shift repeatedly while typing, it indicates that you light benefit from tjis feature. Thus only requiring detection of the writing cursor being active, which is already possible, because there is an accessibility feature to highlight that. I know this, because a fresh install of windows suggests that you go trough accesdibility on first startup.
Sorry, I know you’re not developing Windows UI (but what do I know, if you did), but I kindawanted to rant a bit about such an apparent solution to a problem that has plagued from Win 3.11 at least.