Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
I don't see that option in the preferences dialog - you can indeed alter the way CapsLock works, and whether the Shift key cancels CapsLock or not, but it seems to be a latching key in all cases, as far as I can tell.On 11/8/06, Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman sun com> wrote:Luke Yelavich wrote:... In Windows, Jaws manages to prevent the capslock key from being latched or unlatched. To latch/unlatch, you press shift + Capslock, or press capslock twice quickly.I see. I expect that would be a hazardous and/or fragile thing to attempt on X, especially if, as I believe, the latching behavior is a hardware feature on some (most?) keyboards. On Windows you could circumvent this by meddling with the keyboard drivers, but I think we want to avoid getting that intrusive. So we should probably consider CapsLock to be an always-latching key, IMO.I thought the Gnome Keyboard preferences already allowed one to make CapsLock a simple modifier key for entering special characters? When this is done, is it still latching?
regards Bill
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