Orca on laptops.

[Bill Haneman]

Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
> On 11/8/06, Bill Haneman <Bill.Haneman at sun.com> wrote:
>   
>> Luke Yelavich wrote:
>>     
>>> ...
>>> In Windows, Jaws manages to prevent the capslock key from being latched
>>> or unlatched. To latch/unlatch, you press shift + Capslock, or press
>>> capslock twice quickly.
>>>
>>>       
>> I see.  I expect that would be a hazardous and/or fragile thing to
>> attempt on X, especially if, as I believe, the latching behavior is a
>> hardware feature on some (most?) keyboards.  On Windows you could
>> circumvent this by meddling with the keyboard drivers, but I think we
>> want to avoid getting that intrusive.  So we should probably consider
>> CapsLock to be an always-latching key, IMO.
>>     
>
> I thought the Gnome Keyboard preferences already allowed one to make
> CapsLock a simple modifier key for entering special characters? When
> this is done, is it still latching?
>   
I don't see that option in the preferences dialog - you can indeed alter 
the way CapsLock works, and whether the Shift key cancels CapsLock or 
not, but it seems to be a latching key in all cases, as far as I can tell.

regards

Bill
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