[oS-EN] Caps lock key and led problem - ideas?
Hi, I have a small nuisance with the led on the caps lock key of this laptop: on wakeup from hibernation it is on, while typing produces lowercase letters. What I do is hit the key twice. Is there something I could do? Is this a bug to be reported, for instance? Could I run something to read the led and switch it off if it is on? maybe automatically on return from hibernation. Write something to /proc? Ideas? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.5 (Laicolasse))
On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 21:23:09 +0100, "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
I have a small nuisance with the led on the caps lock key of this laptop: on wakeup from hibernation it is on, while typing produces lowercase letters.
What I do is hit the key twice.
Is there something I could do? Is this a bug to be reported, for instance?
Could I run something to read the led and switch it off if it is on? maybe automatically on return from hibernation. Write something to /proc?
Something is wrong, of course. But, for a work-around to read or set the LEDs, there are man pages for 'xset' and 'setleds'. xset is for 'X', and the command would be 'xset led ...'. Maybe you could search for those commands in a configuration/init file? -- Robert Webb
On 2024-01-18 22:48, Robert Webb via openSUSE Users wrote:
On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 21:23:09 +0100, "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
I have a small nuisance with the led on the caps lock key of this laptop: on wakeup from hibernation it is on, while typing produces lowercase letters.
Forgot to say I'm on XFCE on Leap 15.5
What I do is hit the key twice.
Is there something I could do? Is this a bug to be reported, for instance?
Could I run something to read the led and switch it off if it is on? maybe automatically on return from hibernation. Write something to /proc?
Something is wrong, of course. But, for a work-around to read or set the LEDs, there are man pages for 'xset' and 'setleds'. xset is for 'X', and the command would be 'xset led ...'.
Just did a test. I switched caps up on (I pressed the key); If I type, I get uppercase. I switch to ctrl-alt-f1. LED is on, but keyboard types lower case. Oh, xset led on/off (as root in a terminal) do nothing. Same thing as user. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.5 (Laicolasse))
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