Re: [orca-list] Caps Lock Issue

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

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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