Detect CAPS LOCK with a bash script?

[Dara Javaherian]

Hello all,

I have a laptop with no LED's to indicate whether or not the caps lock key is active. I was thinking of writing a bash script to do this but I can't seem to be able to detect it via the terminal. Is there any way that I can do this?

Thanks,
Dara

[ghostdog74]

is your caps lock ALWAYS going to be ON? type a character on your terminal, if its CAPs, then turn it off. Why do you need a script for that?

[Arndt]

Hello all,

I have a laptop with no LED's to indicate whether or not the caps lock key is active. I was thinking of writing a bash script to do this but I can't seem to be able to detect it via the terminal. Is there any way that I can do this?

Thanks,
Dara

If you have an X server running, you can use "xset -q".

[Dara Javaherian]

If you have an X server running, you can use "xset -q".

Thank you! This works! I use

xset -q | grep Caps