capslock mysteriously reversed once in a while

[Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin]

2010/9/14 Elazar Leibovich <elazarl at 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 at cs.huji.ac.il
> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
>
>


-- 
Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin <cben at users.sf.net>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/pipermail/linux-il/attachments/20100915/4e08a90a/attachment.html>