Capslock Delay Problem

[xmRipper]

"I recommend using caps lock instead of shift to type capital letters to allow more flexibility in the hand that you would normally use shift with." - Typing tips from the fastest typist, Sean Wrona

Yeah.

[rhlobo]

ANy news??


# THE PROBLEM
There is an unproportional delay when turning off caps lock between keyup and lowering case.


# DESCRIPTION
I know I should have learned to use Shift modifyer, but this is not the case. It's very much a corner case, but there are plenty of other users who have this bad habit as I do. I don want to discuss with is the best way of typing, etc. It will not be productive.

The problem seems to happen only when turning the CAPS LOCK off, so it seems to be suffering form a programmatically induced delay. Xorg developers must have not bumped into this problem yet, specially because it affects only people with this "terrible" habit that are able to type fast (70+ words por minute).

CapsLock functioning as normal:
<CAPSLOCK KEY_DOWN><CAPSLOCK KEY_UP> T <CAPSLOCK KEY_DOWN><CAPSLOCK KEY_UP> est

Expected Result:
Test

Actual Result:
TEst


# WHAT IT IS NOT
It is NOT a hardware problem. I've experienced this problem for years now, with many linux distros (actually, occurs to every single distro I've tryed including SUSE, Red Hat, Slackware) using various machines and keyboards. I explicity assure that it is not a RAM problem as well. And by the way, other OSs, using same machines, do work without problem (even with heavyweight programs).


# LINKS
The are many threads about it. Someone with more power here should unify / cross-reference them. For the ones interested in this issue, I recommend to use the official bug report (lets centralize/coordinate efforts):

- Bug report https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27903

For reference:
- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=96492
- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=744541
- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1462333
- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12252966
- http://forums.justlinux.com/showthre...-off-caps-lock


# HOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM

Turn capslock on and as fast as possible press: H -> CAPS -> H -> H -> H
It'll actually write out: HHhh

Videos that try to reproduce the problem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xa6_yJYMsU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVdu5lXz8RA


# FIX
It seems that xorg 1.12 will have this partially fixed. There are other things that will need to be fized as well, but it seems you will be able to configure a few things and make it work. Just take a better look at the bug report.
As I have ubuntu, I may try to update xorg using https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates, but as I am short on time, it may take a little while. If someone else does that please report back the results.

[Agnwristos]

The bug website states it is resolved.. If so can someone please share the solution with me?

This issue is what prevents me from using Linux.. I can not type which is the most essential aspect of using a computer.

[nabukadnezar43]

xkbcomp -xkb $DISPLAY /home/username/myxkbmap

Now you'll have a file named myxkbmap in your home directory. Open that file with your text editor and edit the key <caps> entry like this:

  key <CAPS> {     repeat=no,     type[group1]="ALPHABETIC",     symbols[group1]=[ Caps_Lock, Caps_Lock ],     actions[group1]=[ LockMods(modifiers=Lock), Private(type=3,data[0]=1,data[1]=3,data[2]=3) ]   };

Save it. And then reload it:

xkbcomp /home/username/myxkbmap $DISPLAY

You can write an executable startup script so that you won't have to do this everytime X starts.

Like:

#!/bin/sh

xkbcomp /home/username/myxkbmap $DISPLAY

Save this with any name you want. Make it executable. And make it one of your startup programs.

[Driiper]

Snip....

Holy ****, i must revive thread to tell you that your a god.

Thanks!