X.org on Mac OS X and caps-lock/control

[Michel Dänzer]

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 15:06 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: 
> 
> - if uControl is not in use, CapsLock does send an event, but only when it's
>   pressed, not when it's released.  If I use xmodmap to bind this key to the
>   `control' modifier, I get a sticky-control (aka control-lock) behavior.

AFAIK this is a hardware limitation. There are some patches for the
Linux kernel that try and work around it, but I think they don't work
under all circumstances.


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