[PSA] No keyboard input after toggling "Slow Keys" in the Accessibility Menu

Hello everyone,

I accidentally toggled the “Slow Keys” in the Accessibility Menu (or key combination, not sure).

That setting disabled the laptop’s physical keyboard and the On Screen virtual keyboard input. I had only trackpad and mouse input working.

Not knowing what happened, I spent an hour on the phone looking to troubleshoot this issue (without having keyboard input in my laptop session).

This happened after a system update, I initially thought that update broke the keyboard input (seeing USB kernel log errors) and that I had to restore from backup.

Luckily, I saw that toggle was on, trying to activate the Screen Keyboard from that accessibility menu. I tuned off, and I had my keyboard input working again.

This is a PSA that might help someone that could be my situation.

Regards!

Software Information:

  • Firmware Version: 1.60
  • OS Name: Fedora Linux 40 (Workstation Edition)
  • OS Build: (null)
  • OS Type: 64-bit
  • GNOME Version: 46
  • Windowing System: X11
  • Kernel Version: Linux 6.11.8-200.fc40.x86_64
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