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From: Saphirus Sage <saphirus497@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] capslock reversal
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:30:37
Message-Id: 49F372E8.9000504@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] capslock reversal by Dale
1 Dale wrote:
2 > Michael P. Soulier wrote:
3 >
4 >> I've had this happen a few times now in the new Xorg.
5 >>
6 >> All of a sudden I'm typing in all caps, but my caps lock is off. I put it on
7 >> and I'm not in all caps anymore in a particular app (xterm or vim), but now
8 >> I'm in caps in another window...
9 >>
10 >> If I go to a virtual terminal and back it seems to fix it.
11 >>
12 >> Anyone else see this?
13 >>
14 >> Thanks,
15 >> Mike
16 >>
17 >>
18 >
19 > Did you switch to a console and then it changes? I have ran into this
20 > for a looong time now. If I switch from KDE to a console, ctrl alt F1,
21 > then switch back to KDE, the caps lock is sort of doing funny things,
22 > It varies but usually I have to hit the caps lock key twice for it to
23 > get sorted out. Then my keyboard led and what it is actually doing
24 > matches.
25 >
26 > Also, I'm still on the old xorg and it does what I described. I have
27 > KDE 3.5.10 set to leave caps lock alone but to enable numlock. I have
28 > not tried to change any other settings.
29 >
30 > Hope this info will at least let you know that your system is not the
31 > only one being weird.
32 >
33 > Dale
34 >
35 > :-) :-)
36 >
37 >
38 I ran into the same issue a few weeks ago, just wrote on my keyboard to
39 make it "Caps UnLock" and called that solved.

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Re: [gentoo-user] capslock reversal Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>