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Started by Tony Baldwin
Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:44
odd keyboard capslock behavior
Author: Tony Baldwin
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:44
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:44
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I noticed this in ubuntu on the same machine before wising up and installing Debian. Might just be a keyboard glitch, I don't know... But, on occasion, my capslock seems to go in reverse. IE. with the [A] light on the keyboard lit, I type lower case, and with it not lit, I get ALLCAPS (opposite of normal behavior). Sometimes the behavior eventually corrects itself. Logging out of X also corrects this behavior. Is it my hardware? Or could something else be causing this? I do end up purchasing a new keyboard about once a year (I wear them out...working, typing, working all the time, and spilling coffee and cigarette ashes in them doesn't help, either...). /tony -- http://www.cafepress.com/binbeer 01001001 00100111 01101100 01101100 00100000 01110100 01100101 01101100 01101100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01101001 01110100 00100000 01101101 01100101 01100001 01101110 01110011 00100000 01101001 01100110 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100111 01101100 01101100 00100000 01100010 01110101 01111001 00100000 01101101 01100101 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100010 01100101 01100101 01110010 00101110
Re: odd keyboard capslock behavior
Author: green
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:18
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:18
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--Ns7jmDPpOpCD+GE/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Tony Baldwin wrote at 2009-06-12 09:44 -0600: > But, on occasion, my capslock seems to go in reverse. IE. with the [A] > light on the keyboard lit, I type lower case, and with it not lit, I get > ALLCAPS (opposite of normal behavior). > Sometimes the behavior eventually corrects itself. > Logging out of X also corrects this behavior. I have seen software-related keyboard LED weirdness happen in 2 ways: 1. Switching out of X to a VT, like with Ctrl+Alt+F1, then back. NumLock is still on but the light is off. Press the NumLock key once and the light stays off and NumLock is off, and normal behavior returns. 2. Changing the NumLock in x86 emulator software. At some point I used some software that toggled the NumLock light when you pressed the NumLock key in the emulator, but did not return the LED to its proper state when exiting the emulation. From then on the LED was the opposite of the actual NumLock status (if the NumLock key was used an odd number of times in the emulator). Likely neither of these is your problem; I have no other ideas. --Ns7jmDPpOpCD+GE/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAko25McACgkQ682C+dBP+oRzXQCgm2uLpH8eMxf07u/k1gBtL0Pb BPYAn3x5KHNEYKoIYPOGv+feVTwqwVjW =sfK2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Ns7jmDPpOpCD+GE/--
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