Gregory P. Keeney writes: > Particularly, the following post: > http://www.macslash.com/comments.pl?sid=01/08/23/1916219&cid=7 > > Well, now I know where to begin. The only thing stopping me from doing > this tonight is the cost of a backup keyboard... Maybe I will pick up > an inexpensive USB keyboard to use as a backup, and take the risk of > destroying my TiBook keyboard.
I missed the beginning of this thread, but as I understand it: 1. the caps lock key does not generate a key-up event 2. you want to have a control key there No problem, unless you intend to play Quake. You can fix the key in software. When you get any key-up event, do this: if(crummy_key_down) queue_crummy_key_up_event(); So for a Ctrl-A you get: 1. crummy key down 2. 'A' key down 3. 'A' key up 4. generate synthetic key-up event for the crummy key This is a wee bit annoying if somebody taps the crummy key while you are away from your keyboard, so one might also add a 5-second timeout. You could also/alternately let a second key-down for the crummy key cancel out of crummy-key-down mode. You might not even need to hack the kernel. Linux already has dead-key support which might do the job. Use the console tools to adjust things as desired.
