Exactly! And now the capslock key state doesn't turn on or off the state of the capslock led.
I'm blushing with embarrassment. It's funny which sophisticated tools did I want to use to solve this trivial issue. Thanks a lot! On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin <[email protected] > wrote: > 2010/9/14 Elazar Leibovich <[email protected]> > >> 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 >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> >> > > > -- > Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin <[email protected]> >
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