caplock disappeared

Steve Holmes steve at holmesgrown.com
Sun Jun 1 14:23:20 EDT 2003


Yes, that does seem to do the trick indeed.  I ran into the same
discoveries yesterday afternoon.  Holding down the caps-lock key
without enhancements seems to do the exact same thing as does the
keypad-insert speakup key.  I think this is to help out laptop users.

Hey while I'm here, I have a question about the new way keymaps are
done now.  Can anyone explain how that process now works?  What I mean
is speakup doesn't come with a key map anymore but I think it is
generated by genkeymap.c or something like that.  I did not find any
program comments to help me out thus my questions here.  If I want to
alter a keymap or whatever, how do I go about doing that now? Does an
actual keymap still exist and I've just missed something or what?

Thanks for any help.

On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 09:25:50AM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> Thanks, it worked. alt plus caplock made it work for now.
> On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 jacobs at surferie.net wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> > >From what it looks like here, caps lock is defined as a speakup key.
> > Try hitting caps+numeric keypad enter and guess what you get... speakup
> > turns off. I can't seem to find a way to override it since speakup seems to
> > completely take over the keymap. I've tried defining keycode 58 as Caps_Lock
> > but apparently speakup is intercepting it before it gets to the normal
> > keymap level. For now, if you want caps lock functionality, press any
> > modifier key + caps lock. This apparently lets the caps lock key get
> > through.
> > HTH
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