Re: [SLUG] Strange Caps behavior

From: Shawn J. Goff (shawn7400@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Aug 11 2009 - 07:07:26 EDT


I have that problem. For me, it's my shift key; all of the sudden the
system thinks I'm holding the shift key down. To fix it, I just hit the
shift key.

On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 23:35 -0400, Bob Stia 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 ???
>
> Bob S
>
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