Re: Bug#238189: XKB Options Configuration not working ?

[barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier)]

reassign 238189 kcontrol
thanks

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:21:27PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote:
> reassign 238189 xbase-clients 
> severity wishlist
> retitle 238189 setxkbmap options syntax not documented well
> thanks
> 
> On Monday 15 March 2004 22:53, Hervé Piedvache wrote:
> > setxkbmap -option caps:shift seems to do nothing on my system ... not error
> > message, no reaction ... nothing :o(
> 
> setxkbmap is part of xbase-clients

This is right.

> kcontrol uses it, so if setxkbmap has no effect either, it is clearly
> not a kcnotrol problem

If setxkbmap has no effect, kcontrol should not display those buttons,
or provide better explanations on what they do.

> > Help needed ... better documentation may be or a package missing but ...
> > need help please about this menu !
> 
> setxkbmap has a man page, which admittedly isnt very verbose about the actual
> options syntax. 

I do not know what kcontrol is supposed to do, but AFAICT CapsLock can
not be emulated as on typewriters.  The 'Shift cancels Caps' idiom means
that Shift+Caps prints lowercase letters (roughly); when Shift is
released, CapsLock is still locked.

Denis