Misskey Problem

[Billie Walsh]

On 09/17/2010 10:15 AM, Wes Hardin wrote:
> On 09/17/2010 09:50 AM, Billie Walsh wrote:
>    
>> On 09/17/2010 09:28 AM, Wes Hardin wrote:
>>      
>>> On 09/17/2010 07:29 AM, Billie Walsh wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> Somehow I managed to hit some weird key combination that has reversed
>>>> the operation of the Caps Lock. I now have to have the caps turned on to
>>>> type small letters and hit the shift key to type caps. Just the reverse
>>>> of how it normally works.
>>>>
>>>> Any idea what I did and how to correct it?
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> If this is in X, I recommend numlockx
>>>
>>> $ numlockx --help
>>> NumLockX 1.1
>>> (C) 2000-2001 Lubos Lunak<l.lunak at kde.org>
>>> (C) 2001      Oswald Buddenhagen<ossi at kde.org>
>>>
>>> Usage : numlockx [on|off]
>>> on     - turns NumLock on in X ( default )
>>> off    - turns NumLock off in X
>>> toggle - toggles the NumLock on and off in X
>>>
>>> I run into this more often than I like moving between VMs and my host.  numlockx
>>> always fixes it right up for me.
>>>
>>>        
>> Numlock works like it's supposed to.
>>      
> Oops, didn't read carefully enough.  Have you tried using a virtual keyboard to
> toggle it?  I was able to get them switched and switched back using the caps
> lock key on kvkbd.  Toggling caps on the virtual keyboard toggled the state as
> far as X was concerned but not the physical keyboard light.
>
>    

As it worked out I had to restart anyway. I couldn't even get Konsole to 
start. The whole computer was acting weird. Don't know what the issue was.

This is the second time I've had this caps lock issue. If/when it 
happens again I'll have to give your idea a try.

Thanks.

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