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From: eap@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Eric Pearce)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Weird Xsun cap lock problem
Message-ID: <29264@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 6 Apr 89 01:02:01 GMT
References: <2939@ncar.ucar.edu>
Reply-To: eap@bu-it.bu.edu (Eric Pearce)
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In article <2939@ncar.ucar.edu> corbet@stout.ucar.edu (Jonathan Corbet) says:
>The details: x11.3, patches 1-9, gcc, awm.
>
>Has anybody else ever seen this?  Every now and then I'll be working away,
>and the X server decides that it is going to go into permanent "caps lock"
>mode.  All keys become capital letters, and there seems to be nothing I
>can do about it.  I can pound on the "caps" key until my fingers bleed, to
>no avail.  Awm will only recognize button events with the shift modifier.
>There is nothing to be done but stop the server and begin from scratch.
>
>The problem is infrequent.  I hadn't seen it for a few weeks, but it has
>happened twice this evening.
>
>Does anybody have an idea as to what is going on here?  Is there a way to
>avoid this problem, or a way to recover when it strikes?  Any help would
>be much appreciated.
>
>Jonathan Corbet
>National Center for Atmospheric Research, Field Observing Facility
>corbet@stout.ucar.edu

  I've had this happen a couple of times too.  The trick seems to be
  to bang both shift keys in a rapid, random manner.  Really.

  -e

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