I have often encountered the evil twin of this bug. Mouse keys will switch off for no apparent reason. I certainly sympathize with the posters above. But I would add that, for those of us who use mouse keys, it is equally unpleasant to have it suddenly _stop_ working. (Many thanks to Mike who posted the Shift+Num Lock shortcut!)
I encountered this often in Feisty and Gutsy. It seems to happen less often in Hardy, though I just recently upgraded and haven't spent much time with Hardy yet. There is one difference though; in 7.04 and 7.10 when mouse keys switched off the "enable mouse keys" check box would become unchecked. But in 8.04 mouse keys will stop working while the check box remains checked. I am not using a laptop keyboard and it seems very unlikely that I'm frequently hitting shift+num lock by accident. I am not logging in via remote desktop; remote desktop is not enabled on my machine. -- mouse keys turns on randomly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/192508 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
