Re: Orca on laptops.

["Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis" <bhawkeslewis googlemail com>]

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?

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis