Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote: > 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? > I don't see that option in the preferences dialog - you can indeed alter the way CapsLock works, and whether the Shift key cancels CapsLock or not, but it seems to be a latching key in all cases, as far as I can tell.
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