MiSt77
September 25th, 2018, 05:26 PM
I have to admit that I have already asked this question before (in 2010 (https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1586506)). Regrettably, however, I didn't receive any responses back then.
Quite some time has passed since, but despite having searched for a solution over and over again, I still haven't found a way to coerce XKB's Caps lock handling to behave like a manual typewriter. I.e. to turn off Caps lock, you have to press Shift. That is, no matter how often I press Caps lock, it should stay in uppercase mode, only to revert to lowercase after I press Shift:
aaaa <Caps> AAAA <Caps> AAAA <Shift> aaaa
I guess with X11 being phased out, and many Linux distributions now preparing the switch to Wayland, the input handling stack must've undergone several changes in the last 10 years. Is there anyone who knows if Typewriter-style Caps lock behavior has finally become available under XKB? (I have, of course, already enabled XKB's shift:breaks_caps option, but that is only part of the equation.)
Thank you :-)
Quite some time has passed since, but despite having searched for a solution over and over again, I still haven't found a way to coerce XKB's Caps lock handling to behave like a manual typewriter. I.e. to turn off Caps lock, you have to press Shift. That is, no matter how often I press Caps lock, it should stay in uppercase mode, only to revert to lowercase after I press Shift:
aaaa <Caps> AAAA <Caps> AAAA <Shift> aaaa
I guess with X11 being phased out, and many Linux distributions now preparing the switch to Wayland, the input handling stack must've undergone several changes in the last 10 years. Is there anyone who knows if Typewriter-style Caps lock behavior has finally become available under XKB? (I have, of course, already enabled XKB's shift:breaks_caps option, but that is only part of the equation.)
Thank you :-)