[SOLVED] Caps lock light reversed

[DrMelon]

i HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM AS YOU CAN READ...

BUT IT'S ONLY FOR CHARACTERS, ALL MY PUNCTUATION WORKS NORMALLY!!! ", . : '"

REMOVE THE SOLVED TAG....

Punctuation always works normally with capslock. Just push the capslock key to turn it off (although the light will show as on). You don't need to show us by typing in all-caps.

[All Good]

Turn caps on (light off)
Open OpenOffice Writer, blank document
Hold right shift key, type letter "f" (the letter will appear in small caps: f)
Let go of right shift key, type letter "a" (the letter will appear in caps: A)
Hit the space key...

If you have autocorrect turned on in OpenOffice, as soon as you hit space,
aF will change to Af. The keyboard will change to small caps while the caps
light will stay off. The caps light and keyboard caps are back in sync.

[trennor]

Turn caps on (light off)
Open OpenOffice Writer, blank document
Hold right shift key, type letter "f" (the letter will appear in small caps: f)
Let go of right shift key, type letter "a" (the letter will appear in caps: A)
Hit the space key...

If you have autocorrect turned on in OpenOffice, as soon as you hit space,
aF will change to Af. The keyboard will change to small caps while the caps
light will stay off. The caps light and keyboard caps are back in sync.

WRONG!! I have the same problem: reversed caps lock, when the light is on, lower case, light off, upper case. The above fix did NOT work for me.

kubuntu 9.04 -- but I'm switching to PCLINUXOS

This issue is NOT solved. There has to be some command we can issue in terminal which will restore things; why has this not been yet posted?

[Goatrancer]

Turn caps on (light off)
Open OpenOffice Writer, blank document
Hold right shift key, type letter "f" (the letter will appear in small caps: f)
Let go of right shift key, type letter "a" (the letter will appear in caps: A)
Hit the space key...

If you have autocorrect turned on in OpenOffice, as soon as you hit space,
aF will change to Af. The keyboard will change to small caps while the caps
light will stay off. The caps light and keyboard caps are back in sync.

This worked for me.. but I'm still at a loss as to how the hell it happened in the first place? Does OpenOffice autocorrect somehow screw up my keyboard?? I was using OO before the issue started.

[rcorlett]

Brilliant! That worked for me.

I just plugged in a new logitech dinovo wireless keyboard (amazing btw) and had the same problem. Was NOT using openoffice at the time. I recommend trying that fix.

Robert

[JackOfBlades]

Turn caps on (light off)
Open OpenOffice Writer, blank document
Hold right shift key, type letter "f" (the letter will appear in small caps: f)
Let go of right shift key, type letter "a" (the letter will appear in caps: A)
Hit the space key...

If you have autocorrect turned on in OpenOffice, as soon as you hit space,
aF will change to Af. The keyboard will change to small caps while the caps
light will stay off. The caps light and keyboard caps are back in sync.

This worked for me. It seems OpenOffice has to do something about it. Someone should take a look into this.

[zerocc]

Unplugging the keyboard worked for me - was not using OO at the time. There appears to be at least two, possibly more, separate issues resulting in the same problem.

[FormerSlacker]

Is there any progress with this bug? I'm on 10.04 and the CAPSLOCK will randomly be reversed, and whats weird is that even punctuation is reversed as well.

For example, when CAPSLOCK is reversed it's impossible for me to type "," as only "<" will display. Very annoying behavior that's driving me nuts. It seems completely random.

[vtk_90]

Turn caps on (light off)
Open OpenOffice Writer, blank document
Hold right shift key, type letter "f" (the letter will appear in small caps: f)
Let go of right shift key, type letter "a" (the letter will appear in caps: A)
Hit the space key...

If you have autocorrect turned on in OpenOffice, as soon as you hit space,
aF will change to Af. The keyboard will change to small caps while the caps
light will stay off. The caps light and keyboard caps are back in sync.

Heh, worked for me too. Open Office is really funny...

[loganphyve]

I fixed this by doing the following: turn caps lock off (so the light is now illuminated as though caps lock is on). Then, just unplug your keyboard and plug it back in. The keyboard should default to showing "caps off" while caps are now toggled off in the system.