On 11/8/06, Bill Haneman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Luke Yelavich wrote: > > ... > > In Windows, Jaws manages to prevent the capslock key from being latched > > or unlatched. To latch/unlatch, you press shift + Capslock, or press > > capslock twice quickly. > > > I see. I expect that would be a hazardous and/or fragile thing to > attempt on X, especially if, as I believe, the latching behavior is a > hardware feature on some (most?) keyboards. On Windows you could > circumvent this by meddling with the keyboard drivers, but I think we > want to avoid getting that intrusive. So we should probably consider > CapsLock to be an always-latching key, IMO.
I thought the Gnome Keyboard preferences already allowed one to make CapsLock a simple modifier key for entering special characters? When this is done, is it still latching? -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
