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?
'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.
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