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On 18 Feb 2010, at 15:27, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> I now have all uppercase at the cmdline. The actual keyboard is not |
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> in uppercase mode... and oddly the gentoo install apparently is not |
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> seeing uppercase at the cmdline since cmds that are supposed to be in |
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> lower case all work. |
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> typing what I see as `LS' at the command line does what `ls' is |
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> supposed |
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> to do and lists the directory, so gentoo is seeing lowercase where I |
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> see uppercase. |
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> Anyone have a clue what this might be about? |
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I believe that *nix does this natively & transparently, so that it |
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continues to function with ancient physical VTs & teletypes which lack |
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a shift key. |
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I have this idea that the system will try to accommodate you this way |
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if you attempt to log in with the CAPS LOCK on. I can't quite get this |
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to work here, it seems to reject my password, but on at least one |
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system I see the logon prompt change to ALL CAPS if I log on using my |
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username but capitalised (i.e. "STROLLER" instead of "stroller"). |
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Is it possible you have the CAPS LOCK stuck on your VM but not on your |
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host system? I've not used VMs, so please excuse me if this is a |
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ridiculous impossibility. |
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Stroller. |
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