[TriLUG] ubuntu 7.04 desktop - caps lock key not working

[Mike Norwood]

I also tampered with some configuration replies, but I don't remember 
finding or changing anything that should have corrected it, so I will 
still assume it was the updates. I may have to reload it again to make 
sure exactly what fixed it.  I like the caps lock key.

Mike

On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Andrew C. Oliver wrote:

> I just discovered my non-X terms have the same issue...totally freaky. 
> I never noticed this before... I guess I never use caps lock..
> 
> Mike Norwood wrote:
> > Jason,
> > 
> > I appreciate the reply.  It told me (from the desktop) that they were 42 
> > updated packages available, and after letting those run, it now works.  I 
> > can only assume something in these updates fixed it, but I have no idea 
> > what it might have been.  
> > 
> > Thanks again, Mike.
> > 
> > On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Jason Faulkner wrote:
> > 
> >> I don't know what to do to help, but this has to be one of the
> >> strangest linux desktop issues I've ever read about. You know, I'll
> >> have to check on one of my linux boxes at work to see if caps lock
> >> works there. I don't think I've ever tried it.
> >>
> >>> I have recently loaded a machine with Ubuntu 7.04 desktop edition and like
> >>> quite a lot about it, however the caps lock key does not appear to work on
> >>> the console tty1 through tty6 screens.  It does actually light up when I
> >>> push it, and the light goes off when I push it again, but it does not
> >>> work.  To make letters capital I have to push the shift key.  It does work
> >>> in a terminal window from the graphical desktop.  I found a few messages
> >>> about this in googling around, but no clear solution.  Has anyone seen
> >>> this before, and especially does anyone know how to fix it?
> >>
> >>
> > 
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