[haiku] Re: Caps Lock?

  • From: Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 05:25:29 -0500

On Thursday, December 13, 2012, Pete Goodeve wrote:

>
>
> The only way I can think of for a filter to handle this would be for it
> to revert every shifted character that came through if CapsLock is on,
> but that's *definitely* a hack!
>
> What I may do is just patch KeyboardInputDevice itself to either
> ignore CapsLock entirely or --definitely nice! -- to do as stpere
> suggests.  I guess Keyboard Preferences could be amended to
> add the choice (but I'll try it out initially as an alrternate module).
>

IIRC, the Colemak layout treats CapsLock as a backspace key.  I'm not sure
if the keyboard CapsLock led turns on or not though.  After work, I could
check.

--mmadia

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