On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, George Petri wrote:
> Hello! It's been a long time since I last posted to an xfree list because
> it's worked so well -- even without configuration! -- as both part of a
> network and stand-alone machine.
>
> But I have recently bumped up against what I think is a bug, while I was
> trying to enter a case-inverted password:
>
> 1. Go to a konsole, rxvt or xterm
> 2. Turn on CapsLock
> 3. Hold shift and press a letter on the keyboard
>
> E.g. if I turn on Capslock and hold shift and press 'a', I get 'A',
> while at the *real* non-x-based linux console, I get 'a'.
>
> This is inconsistent and in my opinion, incorrect behaviour.
>
> I have tried this in XFree 3.3.6 and XFree 4.0.3 using Linux-Mandrake
> 7.2 and 8.0.
>
> Please fix it in 3.3.7 and 4.1.x ASAP.
I can't reproduce it with a recent cvs version of XFree86.
However, there are many ways of configuring the keyboard;
if you still have the problem with 4.1.0 or cvs, we would want
you config file, operating system version and distribution, and
the language/nationality of your keyboard.
--
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna
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