dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) (10/20/90)
This may be platform-specific, but it's possible that someone can help me. We use Sony NEWS workstations with US/English keyboards. There are a couple of extra keys (marked Nfer and Xfer) on either side of the space bar. People accidentally enter some unknown key sequence that puts them into permanent CAPS LOCK mode (the caps key won't get them out) or into permanent CTRL LOCK mode. This isn't confined to one xterm -- it's global. We have no idea how to get out of this mode except to bang on the keyboard or play the game xhextris (and this doesn't always work). We can reproduce the behavior, but only by randomly banging on the keyboard. Even using xev to analyze the keystrokes doesn't give us anything useful. Can anyone give me any insight into what is going on?
janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen) (10/20/90)
We've also seen this on the Sun server, but figured it was in some way specific to the Sun keyboard drivers (with no real evidence that that is the case). Bill -- Bill Janssen janssen@parc.xerox.com (415) 494-4763 Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, California 94304
fgreco@dprg-330.GOVt.shearson.COM (Frank Greco) (10/22/90)
I often get the infamous "caps lock mode" on my Sun 3/60. As per recommendations from der Mouse, it appears that an up event is not being noticed. Instead of bring the server down and up again, if you try to tap on both shift keys either one-at-a-time or simultaneously, it usually restores caps sanity. Frank G.