Caps lock behaviour reversed, one of the "terminals" has gone all-caps

[Eric Dunbar]

I just had something odd happen. My keycaps became reversed in GNOME.
With keycaps on, I'd type lowercase and with keycaps off, it'd be
uppercase.

I switched to "terminal 1" (ctrl-alt-F1) & the screen font went all
caps though the system still recognised the difference b/t lower- and
upper-case typing and was also plagued by the reverse caps-lock issue.

I fixed GNOME easily enough -- logged out and in again. The "terminal
1" (I can never remember what to call them, sessions?) is still funny.

Hmm. Reverse-capslock behaviour is back in GNOME. I switch to
ctrl-alt-1, tried to do some things & realised it was
reverse-caplocked (everything displays in caps though) so turned on
caps lock. Switched back to ctrl-alt-f7 & now reverse-capslock is
back.

Well, that's neat. Wish I knew precisely what triggered it.

FYI I'm on an Apple Macintosh PowerBook G3 "Pismo", had mol
(mac-on-linux) open in the background, and had booted an OS 9 install
CD (I'm trying to figure out how to get mol working without having to
re-install OS X onto the other partition... re-installing isn't worth
it since OS X is still my primary OS).

Eric.