capslock mysteriously reversed once in a while

[Elazar Leibovich]

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 <cben at users.sf.net
> wrote:

> 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.
>>
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