Re: Turning on CAPS Lock by default

[Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org>]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 01:57:44AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 08:18:33AM +0100, Morbo (morbo@freemail.hu) wrote:
> > Is there a way to have CAPS Lock turned on in all VCs and perhaps telnet
> > sessions by default?
> 
> I believe this is a BIOS setting.

I've often seen BIOSen with settings for initial numlock, but don't
recall ever seeing one for capslock.  And linux ignores (well,
overrides) BIOS numlock settings anyhow, so I would expect it to do
the same with capslock.

> This is strongly discouraged.

Agreed.

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