On Tuesday 11 August 2009 00:57:14 Eben King wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, draeath wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Bob Stia<rnr@sanctum.com> wrote:
> >> Hello Sluggers,
> >>
> >> Wondering is anyone else has seen this stange behavior.
> >>
> >> While I am in the middle of typing a document the fonts will suddenly go
> >> from lower case to capital, and NO I don't accidentlt hit the "Caps"
> >> key, and there is no indicator light on the keyboard. Then I must hit
> >> the "Caps" key, get the indicator light and the fonts are displayed as
> >> lower case. The shift key will work but it is now opposite.
> >>
> >> From that point on every app, kwrite, Firefox, a teminal etc. will
> >> follow this strange behavior. Cannot get out of it until I kill the
> >> session. On starting a new session all is well again....until... it does
> >> it again.
> >>
> >> Anybody have any wild ideas about this ???
> >
> > Are you using xmodmap at all? It's possible some key or key
> > combination got assigned to capslock's function?
>
No, not that I know of,anyway.
> 'xmodmap -pm | grep Caps_Lock' should tell you what's mapped to Caps_Lock.
> 1st column is the key name. "lock" is the key normally bound to it. You
> can also try pressing shift-q, ctrl-q, alt-q, winkey-q, rightmousekey-q,
> shift-w, etc through each printing key to see when it happens. I hope that
> finds it, because there are 10 2-modifier and 10 3-modifier combinations
> for each key, I would guess something with the winkey as it's something
> you might not hit on purpose.
Tried all of the combinations you suggested. No good. Below is result of
suggested command.
bob@Easystreet:~> xmodmap -pm | grep Caps_Lock
lock Caps_Lock (0x42)
Keep thinking guys, and thanks.
Bob S
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