On Sun, 2002-07-07 at 06:37, Toby Sargeant wrote: > This might be an X specific question rather than a mac keyboard specific > one, but I'm not sure where else to start looking for answers. > > For some reason, adding > > XkbOption "ctrl:swapcaps" # from memory > > to the appropriate place in my XF86Config-4 doesn't do the > right thing on this (tiBook) keyboard; ctrl becomes capslock, but > capslock doesn't act like ctrl. > > xev shows the ctrl keycode event being generated, but the capslock key > seems not to stay held down. My guess is that there's a keyboard > management layer under X that treats capslock specially.
As has been discussed here before, it's a hardware limitation. > Is there any way to work around this? A kernel patch has been posted, you may want to try it. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
