reassign 238189 kcontrol thanks On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:21:27PM +0200, Riku Voipio wrote: > reassign 238189 xbase-clients > severity wishlist > retitle 238189 setxkbmap options syntax not documented well > thanks > > On Monday 15 March 2004 22:53, Hervé Piedvache wrote: > > setxkbmap -option caps:shift seems to do nothing on my system ... not error > > message, no reaction ... nothing :o( > > setxkbmap is part of xbase-clients
This is right. > kcontrol uses it, so if setxkbmap has no effect either, it is clearly > not a kcnotrol problem If setxkbmap has no effect, kcontrol should not display those buttons, or provide better explanations on what they do. > > Help needed ... better documentation may be or a package missing but ... > > need help please about this menu ! > > setxkbmap has a man page, which admittedly isnt very verbose about the actual > options syntax. I do not know what kcontrol is supposed to do, but AFAICT CapsLock can not be emulated as on typewriters. The 'Shift cancels Caps' idiom means that Shift+Caps prints lowercase letters (roughly); when Shift is released, CapsLock is still locked. Denis
