[Question]Reset Capslock under X window environment

Kan-I Jyo cecilhsujp at gmail.com
Mon Jan 19 16:20:55 PST 2009


Dear Lunak,

Thank you for your prompt reply. I appreciated it.

I will give the one for numlock on given web link a shot
and try to make it work with capslock.

I will let you know if I encounter any other problem.

Thank you again.

2009/1/19 Lubos Lunak <l.lunak at suse.cz>:
> On Monday 19 of January 2009, Kan-I Jyo wrote:
>> Dear list,
>>
>> I am new to list and I am not sure if I am posting this quesiton at
>> the right place. Please let me know if this is not the place for my
>> question.
>>
>> It comes up to my mind that if I can reset the capslock status by
>> command instead of pressing the capslock key itself. For example, if
>> the current Capslock is on, which means all the characters would be
>> upper case, is there a way to set/reset the capslock to "off" by
>> issuing a command through xterm or other terminal soft?
>>
>> I have tried "$ xset -led [1-32]" but the capslock indicator on "$
>> xkbvleds" and "$ xkbwatch" window never turned off.
>
>  See http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/numlockx/ . It is for NumLock but the
> modifications are obvious.
>
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-- 
Sincerely,

Jyo



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