[LBo] Caps Lock Key

[Howard Rosen]

Take a look at this URL.

http://www.linux.org/apps/AppId_7848.html

Howard

On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 12:09 -0800, Gene Venable wrote:
> When I was in England about a year ago, my laptop keyboard went out, so I bought a wireless keyboard from a London shop. Now I am in the US and have fixed the laptop keyboard, but this Logitech keyboard is cool, so I'm using it on my Linux desktop machine.
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> The only problem is that sometimes I am typing in a password and I can't get it to work until I eventually theorize that maybe my caps lock key has been activated, and pressing the caps lock key solves the problem! There is no caps lock light on this keyboard!
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> So, I want a utility that tells me when my caps lock key is activated. I see how to change the caps lock key to something else, but I really don't want to do that. I just want a message to appear saying "Caps lock is on" when it is on.
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> This should be a very easy utility to write, I just have no idea how to do it!
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> It would be along the lines of
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> if caps lock key is pressed and it has not been activated, print message "caps lock is on"
> if caps lock key is pressed and it has been activated, erase message "caps lock is on" if it exists.
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> Or something like that.
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> How do I do it?
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> --geneven
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