Re: [orca-list] Caps Lock Issue



Many thanks for the detailed response.  I checked this on Ubuntu's
Karmic release and don't notice the bad behavior: the lock modifier
remains unbound.  So, this may be a problem specific to your X setup or
your distribution.

Will

On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 21:34 +0100, Alastair Irving wrote:
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 03:24:42PM -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
Thanks for checking this out.  Just to verify what "that's exactly
what's happening" means -- did you verify that your xmodmap was
indeed changed/different?

xmodmap before the problem starts is:

xmodmap:  up to 4 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):

shift       Shift_L (0x32),  Shift_R (0x3e)
lock      
control     Control_L (0x25),  Control_R (0x69)
mod1        Alt_L (0x40),  Meta_L (0xcd)
mod2        Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3      
mod4        Super_L (0x85),  Super_R (0x86),  Super_L (0xce),  Hyper_L (0xcf)
mod5        ISO_Level3_Shift (0x5c),  Mode_switch (0xcb)


And after switching to a text console with ctrl+alt+f1 and back to gnome
with alt+f7 it is 

xmodmap:  up to 4 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):

shift       Shift_L (0x32),  Shift_R (0x3e)
lock        Caps_Lock (0x42)
control     Control_L (0x25),  Control_R (0x69)
mod1        Alt_L (0x40),  Meta_L (0xcd)
mod2        Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3      
mod4        Super_L (0x85),  Super_R (0x86),  Super_L (0xce),  Hyper_L (0xcf)
mod5        ISO_Level3_Shift (0x5c),  Mode_switch (0xcb)



These differ on the line beginning "lock".

Alastair 




Will

On 08/13/09 02:46 PM, Alastair Irving wrote:
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:32:52AM -0400, Willie Walker wrote:
Hi Alastair:

The behavior you describe sounds like something is resetting the
xmodmap.  When you have Orca running and the Caps Lock key is behaving
as expected, try running xmodmap in a terminal and saving the output.
Then, do the things you need to do to reproduce the problem and rerun
xmodmap, comparing the results to the prior run.

The thing I'd be interested in is if the lock modifier gets rebound to
the Caps Lock key.

That's exactly what's happening.  At least its not an Orca problem;
I'll have to try and track down why its being reset.

Many thanks

Alastair

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