Re: Problem with WinXP, XF86, Caps lock, xterm and cursor keys

[Alan Shutko <ats at acm dot org>]

Alexander Gottwald <alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de> writes:

> Cygwin/XFree uses raw scancodes and uses XKB for symbol translation.
> Your tweaking will most likely break this conversion.

I could understand that, if it were consistent.  If Cygwin/XFree
considered that key to still be caps lock, I could easily fix it with
xmodmap.  But it doesn't, xev sees it as control.  Furthermore, why is
it shifting arrow keys and page up/down but not anything else?

Finally, why is caps lock affecting those keys at all?  I haven't seen
that on XFree86 on Linux, nor on any other X server I've tried.
Personally, I suspect that some piece of code is handling things
differently than the rest, so even the usual methods of fixing things
(ie, xresources, xmodmap) may not fix things.  (But I'll be giving it
a try, since it's easy.)

> I declare such a modification as unsupported. You may still ask for
> pointers to documentation 

I'll take you up on that offer.  Could you point me to some
info on how Cygwin/XFree86 gets those scancodes and runs the
conversion?  Maybe I could put together a variant XKB layout without
caps lock....

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