Is this a Speakup problem?

[Janina Sajka]

Yes, it catches me up from time to time as well.

It is a feature, though one may choose to argue the feature's true
value. I don't recall ever latching intentionally, for instance.

Janina

Tom Fowle writes:
> I was under the impression this is a speakup feature to allow
> use of the shift lock as the speakup key. press and hold for speakup
> functions, tap twice to toggle real shift lock.
> 
> It's caught me too.
> Tom Fowle WA6IVG
> 
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 12:40:03PM -0400, Rudy Vener wrote:
> > 
> > Nope. Hitting Ctrl-Shift does nothing.
> > The only way to get myself out of the accidental capslock state is to
> > hit my capslock key twice.
> > Hitting it only once leaves me in caps lock.
> > 
> > Very odd.
> > 
> > On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 12:00:01PM -0400, speakup-request at linux-speakup.org wrote:
> > > 
> > > I can't answer your original question, but when you find yourself in all
> > > caps, what happens when you hold the control key down then just tap
> > > shift once then let both keys up?  I figured out how to turn capslock
> > > off earlier when this happened to me and did it this way accidentally
> > > until I figured out what I had just done.  Hope this helps you.
> > > ***************************************
> > > 
> > 
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Janina Sajka

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