On Aug 26, 2021, at 22:33, mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > > For at least this year, I'm finding that whether I'm in LibreOffice, or Thunderbird, or Firefox, if I do *something*, and I haven't identified what, backspace will delete the entire word, though I haven't hit ctrl-bkspc. In system settings, it should only be the ctrl-bkspc. > > Has anyone else seen this behavior? Sounds to me like you’ve enabled sticky keys: https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/a11y-stickykeys.html.en -- Jonathan Billings