Re: [orca-list] When I doing any Orca laptop binding command, capslock always turned on/off

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

I really appreciate your find.  If xmodmap is depricated, I wonder
what should be used to take its place.  I would be most interested in
what can be figured out with this caps lock key situation as I find
this problem to be extremely annoying when I'm on my laptop.

On 5/18/11, Henning Oschwald <listmail hoschwald de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Fr, Mai 13 2011, Luke Yelavich wrote:
>
> > I am aware of this issue as well, and I think its X keyboard
> > related.
>
> Yes, it is. I spent a coupple of hours last weekend to investigate this
> issue and found the following:
>
> If Orca is configured to use the laptop layout, it uses xmodmap -e
> 'clear Lock' to remove the caps-lock toggling functionality from the
> caps-lock key. Xmodmap however seems to be considdered deprecated these
> days and is no longer fully supported by xkb. In fact, xmodmap -e 'clear
> Lock' doesn't work anymore starting with xkeyboard-config v2.1.
>
> I was able to remove the caps-lock toggle from the caps key by dumping
> my actual keyboard layout with xkbcomp, modifying the layout and loading
> the modified layout, again with xkbcomp. This solution is rather uggly
> however, as it doesn't seem to be possible to modify the existing
> keyboard layout on the fly like it was possible with xmodmap, now the
> whole keyboard layout needs to be replaced. At least I haven't found a
> nicer solution yet.
>
> I'll let you know if I make any progress.
>
> cheers
>
>   Henning
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