Re: Orca on laptops.

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
> 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?
>   
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.

regards

Bill
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