Kali missing Speakup laptop keymap

Igor Gueths igueths at lava-net.com
Sun May 3 23:54:07 EDT 2015


Hey,
I'm running 4.3.18 here, and at least within my Kali VM capslock fails to get
passed into Speakup properly, resulting in my inability to use the laptop
keymap.
On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 03:44:06PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> Yes, although I have a numpad, I can in fact hold down capslock inside
> a vbox guest, and use the speakup laptop keymap if I wanted to. For
> the record, this is in virtualbox 4.2.28. I said before I'm running
> 4.3.x, but I miswrote.
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 06:17:41PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote:
> > On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 03:47:31PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > > Yes, vbox handles capslock in a weird way, but it does pass it
> > > through.
> > >
> > 
> > So you've effectively been able to sue the Speakup laptop keymap inside later
> > Virtualbox versions?
> > >
> > When I initially use capslock in the guest, it doesn't
> > > work. However, subsequent presses of the capslock are passed through
> > > for me. Vbox does trap capslock so to speak, since the capslock state
> > > in the host is changed every time it is pressed while in the
> > > guest. This isn't a big deal for me though.
> > > 
> > 
> > Yeah, I've noticed this as well; it's a bit of a contrast to how VMware
> > Workstation handles capslock key presses.
> > >
> > > Greg
> 
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