cygwin 1-1-4 caps lock on prior to entering cygwin causes inverse shifting behavior

Chris Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Sat Sep 30 10:15:00 GMT 2000


On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 02:43:23PM -0400, Chris Faylor wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 11:39:08AM -0700, james wrote:
>>with caps lock on, entering cygwin causes all text to be typed in 
>>lowercase, but the numbers to be typed as shift-number  (4 is $, etc).
>>
>>Subsequently pressing caps lock so that it is *off* results in (incorrect) 
>>uppercase text, and correct shift behavior on numbers.
>>
>>related mailing list search on caps turned up a similar problem with 
>>pressing caps lock after entering Cygwin.  but i am not a member of this 
>>list so did not respond in that thread.
>
>If you read my response, you undoubtedly are aware of my desired
>approach for fixing it.
>
>To wit: Someone investigate why this is causing problems and send a
>patch.

FWIW, I can't duplicate this problem, so it will definitely take someone
else to solve it.

cgf

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