Re: [orca-list] Caps Lock Issue

[Jacob Schmude <j schmude gmail com>]

I cannot duplicate it on my Jaunty setup either, at least not  
reliably. The only time I notice it is when I switch keyboard layouts  
the lock modifier will sometimes get bound, but that's not so  
surprising when you consider how X handles these things. It doesn't  
happen to me at all when switching in and out of text consoles.

On Aug 13, 2009, at 19:47, Willie Walker wrote:

> 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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