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xmlns:if="http://projectmallard.org/if/1.0/"
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type="topic" style="task a11y"
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<email>philbull@gmail.com</email>
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<credit type="author">
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<name>Shaun McCance</name>
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<email>shaunm@gnome.org</email>
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<credit type="editor">
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<name>Michael Hill</name>
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<email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
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Type keyboard shortcuts one key at a time rather than having to hold down
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all of the keys at once.
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<link type="guide" xref="a11y#mobility" group="keyboard"/>
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<link type="guide" xref="keyboard" group="a11y"/>
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<revision pkgversion="3.8.0" version="0.3" date="2013-03-13" status="candidate"/>
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<revision version="13.10" date="2013-10-25" status="review"/>
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<em>Sticky keys</em> allows you to type keyboard shortcuts one key at a time
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rather than having to hold down all of the keys at once. For example, the
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<keyseq><key>Alt</key><key>Tab</key></keyseq> shortcut switches between
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windows. Without sticky keys turned on, you would have to hold down both
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keys at the same time; with sticky keys turned on, you would press
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<key>Alt</key> and then <key>Tab</key> to do the same.
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You might want to turn on sticky keys if you find it difficult to hold down
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Click the icon at the very right of the <gui>menu bar</gui> and select
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<gui>System Settings</gui>.
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Open <gui>Universal Access</gui> and select the <gui>Typing</gui> tab.
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Switch <gui>Sticky Keys</gui> on.
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Quickly turn sticky keys on and off
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Under <gui>Enable by Keyboard</gui>, select <gui>Turn on accessibility
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features from the keyboard</gui> to turn sticky keys on and off from the
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keyboard. When this option is selected, you can press <key>Shift</key>
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five times in a row to enable or disable sticky keys.
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If you press two keys at once, you can have sticky keys turn itself off
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temporarily to let you enter a keyboard shortcut in the normal way.
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For example, if you have sticky keys turned on but press <key>Alt</key> and
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<key>Tab</key> simultaneously, sticky keys would not wait for you to press
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another key if you had this option turned on. It <em>would</em> wait if you
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only pressed one key, however. This is useful if you are able to press some
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keyboard shortcuts simultaneously (for example, keys that are close
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together), but not others.
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Select <gui>Disable if two keys are pressed together</gui> to enable this.
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You can have the computer make a "beep" sound when you start typing a
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keyboard shortcut with sticky keys turned on. This is useful if you want to
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know that sticky keys is expecting a keyboard shortcut to be typed, so the
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next key press will be interpreted as part of a shortcut. Select <gui>Beep
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when a modifier key is pressed</gui> to enable this.
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