2010/9/14 Elazar Leibovich <elaz...@gmail.com> > I'm using capslock to switch between hebrew and English. > > Once in a while the capslock key is reversed, and when I switch back to > English, everything I'm writing is in caps. > The only workaround I found is disabling the Hebrew language, and adding it > again. > > *Shift+CapsLock* toggles the caps functionality if you use CapsLock to switch layout. I tend to occasionally press them together by mistake; I guess that's what happened to you. If you'd rather supress it entirely (who wants to SHOUT anyway?), the following command seems to do the trick:
xmodmap -e "remove lock = Caps_Lock" (you should arrange it to run on every login) I fist thought it is manifestation of this > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/227326 > > <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/227326>However > I'm pretty sure it happened a few times even without openoffice installed. > > In order to find the culprit, I'm thinking about running something in the > spirit of the excellent sysinternals Process Monitor [1]. I need something > which would logs all applications that access any of the X functions that > might cause this issue. Then when the problem will happen again, I'll take a > look at the log, and find out who did that. > > How can I do that, if at all? > > Does anyone have a better idea of how to approach this problem? > > [1] I can't use directly the equivalent of Process Monitor for Unix (dtrace > or system tap), since I'm not interested in a system call, but in a call for > a specific function in the X shared library. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > -- Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin <c...@users.sf.net>
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