From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jude DaShiell Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Caps Lock affects Ctrl+keys Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:47:18 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390240055 22337 80.91.229.3 (20 Jan 2014 17:47:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 17:47:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 20 18:47:42 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W5Iwm-0000MA-9b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 18:47:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53925 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5Iwl-0005TV-PE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:47:39 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50967) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5IwX-0005TQ-6v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:47:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5IwS-0005oz-5t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:47:25 -0500 Original-Received: from shellworld.net ([69.60.117.94]:61234 helo=server1.shellworld.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W5IwS-0005ou-1b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:47:20 -0500 Original-Received: by server1.shellworld.net (Postfix, from userid 1024) id 1856B22948; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 11:47:19 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server1.shellworld.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15F9D228BC; Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:47:19 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Mac OS X 10.x X-Received-From: 69.60.117.94 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95516 Archived-At: On Mon, 20 Jan 2014, Yuri Khan wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > >> > >> I notice that, when I turn on Caps Lock, all Ctrl+letter combinations > >> behave as if I pressed Ctrl+Shift+letter. > >> > > No, the problem is in the Linux kernel emacs is by no means unique in > > this behavior. > > Kernel? I don?t think so. xev(1) reports different output when I press > Ctrl+Shift+Z and Ctrl+Z with Caps on. Firefox opens a new tab on > Ctrl+T (and restores the last closed tab on Ctrl+Shift+T), no matter > if Caps is on or off. > I'm using linux-speakup over here and I don't use g.u.i. stuff on Linux I have to do that at work and shouldn't have to at home. The only way I found to clear this state was to reboot the amd64 k8 athelon and that cleared it. If I don't do that, I have to hit shift and hold shift down for each lower case letter otherwise even if capslock is off and I am not holding the shift key down, the only thing that comes out is uppercase letters when I type letters and I first noticed this in another linux application having nothing to do with emacs. > jude