Sticky keys is it so that when you press the modifier keys (control, shift, alt/option and win/meta/super/command), you won’t need to hold them in order to activate a keyboard shortcut.
It’s an accessibility feature designed to make it easier for people who may have trouble using a keyboard to activate keyboard shortcuts.
Can someone finally explain to me what sticky keys mean?
You know how when you press the caps button on your phone keyboard, it Capitalizes the next character you type? It’s that, but on a physical keyboard. Normally you have to hold the shift key, but stickykeys lets you just tap it.
So caps lock?
Not exactly. Using capslock is more cumbersome because you have to press it, then type your letter, then press it again. It doesn’t sound like much, but imagine if the caps button on your phone worked like that. Press it once and you TYPE LIKE THIS UNTIL YOU PRESS IT again
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.
It would be nice if the default wasn’t being on, or it asked during installation or something.
I bet someone who needs it likes that it’s on by default.
This is a rare case of an accessibility feature often being someone’s roadblock…
It’s a hell of a lot easier to disable than it is to enable, especially if you’re not disabled. It’s a minor inconvenience once for us, but enabling it could be exceedingly difficult to overcome for someone else.
Yea, a disabled person might have to get help to enable sticky keys if it wasn’t on by default. Most non-disabled people should not need help, unless they are so tech illiterate that they don’t know how to use Google.
It’s a small annoyance that gets less annoying if you look at it from an empathetic viewpoint.
Fun fact: A common way to get access to SYSTEM (higher than admin) privileges on Windows is the sethc exploit, where you replace 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.
I used to do this to make a hidden account on my computer to bypass my parents’ screen time restrictions
smort
I did this in college with windows 7. I don’t think it works on 10, but could be mistaken.
Ive done it on 10 before
That’s a common way to reset password for the accounts, among osk.exe file replacement
As someone who has had shitty laptop keyboards with fucked up keyboards. I got some actual use out of the feature throughout the years and I have to say it’s quite nice.
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Is this a windows joke I’m too linux to understand?
Is Linux so bad that it doesn’t have accessibility options?
A similar thing I’ve run into where a feature that usually wouldn’t get activated much gets in the way because of games making you input weird patterns is the Windows language swap hotkey, alt-shift. I play a game that uses alt and shift a lot, and involves quite a bit of typing, so I kept getting confused why my language was suddenly different. Took me ages to find out why.
If you just make sure to only have a single keyboard layout in the settings, it doesn’t have any other layouts it can switch to.
I don’t get why you’d need multiple layouts, don’t you just have one keyboard connected to your computer?
But yeah, just disable the hotkey.
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.
Tell me OP is 14 years old without telling me OP is 14 years old.
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Well, for anyone who can’t hold multiple keys at once for any reason. If they are unable to hold CTRL and shift at the same time from hand injuries or something then that’s what the sticky keys are for.
