MoebusNet
December 21st, 2008, 11:09 PM
Searching the Forum, I only found one reference to this issue:
Question #41970, asked on 2008-08-12 by john
which was marked "Solved" by rebooting.
However, this has happened to me 4 times now in 2 days. It always occurs when I'm typing in Open Office Writer. The Open Office Forum suggested that since "Ubuntu heavily modifies Open Office" that I should inquire here for a solution.
What happens to me is at some point working in Writer, my upper and lower cases switch. If I use "Caps Lock", then everything works normally. This behavior carries over into other applications such as this forum.
I am running Ubuntu 8.04.1 with all updates on a Dell D800 notebook.
If I close out OO and reboot, all is back to normal until next time, which only seems to take about 10 minutes working in OO.
I was advised to try "Ctrl+Caps Lock" on the OO Forum; no joy. I also tried the commands in Terminal to reset the "Caps Lock" key as suggested in #41970 above. Didn't help either.
I would welcome any advice to cure this. TIA.
EDIT - After working in OO Writer for 2 hours, my reversed upper & lower case letters are suddenly correct again. Whatever is causing this is flip-flopping back and forth apparently. Same for this forum and my "Caps Lock" icon. Something wonky going on, no doubt.
Question #41970, asked on 2008-08-12 by john
which was marked "Solved" by rebooting.
However, this has happened to me 4 times now in 2 days. It always occurs when I'm typing in Open Office Writer. The Open Office Forum suggested that since "Ubuntu heavily modifies Open Office" that I should inquire here for a solution.
What happens to me is at some point working in Writer, my upper and lower cases switch. If I use "Caps Lock", then everything works normally. This behavior carries over into other applications such as this forum.
I am running Ubuntu 8.04.1 with all updates on a Dell D800 notebook.
If I close out OO and reboot, all is back to normal until next time, which only seems to take about 10 minutes working in OO.
I was advised to try "Ctrl+Caps Lock" on the OO Forum; no joy. I also tried the commands in Terminal to reset the "Caps Lock" key as suggested in #41970 above. Didn't help either.
I would welcome any advice to cure this. TIA.
EDIT - After working in OO Writer for 2 hours, my reversed upper & lower case letters are suddenly correct again. Whatever is causing this is flip-flopping back and forth apparently. Same for this forum and my "Caps Lock" icon. Something wonky going on, no doubt.