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Re: Capslock freakout


I was going to write the list with the same problem...  It seems to be
related to a sequence of commands,  I have three users who are experiencing
this,  all Oracle developers,  and there seems to be a similar sequence of
key strokes leading up to it...  I'm working on capturing it.  but no I
don't have an answer...


----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Genisio" <briangenisio@yahoo.com>
To: <cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 12:14 PM
Subject: Capslock freakout


> Has anyone ever seen this?
>
> I was going along, doing my own thing in the Xserver (version 4.1.99.1),
while
> running ICEwm.  All of a sudden, the keyboard input became CAPSLOCKED.  It
did
> not matter if my keyboard had caps lock or not, all input was capitalized.
> Other windows apps hadd the capitalizaiton correct, includeing the bash
shell
> (not run in an xterm)
>
> Unfortunately, I was unable to get out of this mode.  The only way I was
able
> to fix it was by closing down my desktop and starting again.
>
> Has anyone seen this?  Is there a fix for it?  I use the X server all the
time,
> and this has never happened before, so it is not a big deal, but it was
really
> wierd.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
>
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