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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Caps Lock Problem
Keywords: X-10, keyboard, Caps Lock
Message-ID: <1733@scubed.UUCP>
Date: 10 May 89 22:20:32 GMT
Reply-To: rankin@scubed.com (Tom Rankin)
Organization: S-Cubed, San Diego California
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I am currently an X-10 release 4 user, running under BSD Unix v4.3 on a
Sun 3/50.  Approximately once a week I encounter a very annoying
problem.  When in the "vi" editor, some magic (and as yet,
undetermined) combination of keystrokes toggles the caps lock on.
Following that, every keystroke is displayed and interpreted as an
uppercase character -- in or out of the "vi" editor and in any window.
This is effectively a "crash" since I can do no more work; for all
practical purposes all "vi" commands and Unix commands are lowercase.

It is sufficient to exit X-Windows and fire X up again in order to
correct the problem.  It would, therefore, seem to be a problem with X
and not my workstation.  If there is a combination of keytrokes which
puts me into caps lock mode, I assume there must be another combination
(uppercase, hopefully) which will reset the session to lowercase.
Presumably, any necessary "command" to fix this problem could be
aliased to an uppercase command anyhow.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks,

Tom Rankin