Re: [orca-list] Caps Lock Issue

[Alastair Irving <alastair irving sjc ox ac uk>]

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?

I've sorted it.  In my gnome preferences keyboard layout there were 2
layouts listed, US and UK, with the UK one as the deffault.  I've
deleted the US one as I never use it, and things seem to be fine now.
I suspect that every time I switched to gnome the layout set off as US
and was then imediately switched to UK, thus resetting xmodmap.  

Anyway, I thought I'd share this in case anyone else experiences the
same thing.  Thanks Will for suggesting I check xmodmap.

Best wishes

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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