Bug#459371: Caps lock led turns on/off when c.l. is used as compose key (it shouldn't)
On 1/6/08, Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 5, 2008 at 18:10:56 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote:
>
> > Recently (I assume since Xorg 7.3) the caps lock led turns on/off when
> > hit. Now, that's not a problem on average joe's case, but if you are
> > using caps lock as compose key then you find out that you have a
> > constant blinking on your keyboard when typing something.
> > The old behaviour was to keep caps lock led off all the time no matter
> > how many times I pressed it. When using it as compose key I mean.
> >
> Doesn't seem to happen to me after setxkbmap -option compose:caps, the
> caps lock led stays off. What exactly are your xkb options? (please
> provide the output of xprop -root _XKB_RULES_NAMES).
>
diego@milkyway:~$ xprop -root _XKB_RULES_NAMES
_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "xorg", "pc105", "gb", "intl", "compose:caps"
I used gnome-keyboard-properties to set caps as compose. If I use your
command the led remains off and the output of the above command is the
same.
Weird!
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