Ideas on improving powercomputing keyboard

[David A. Gatwood]

On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, anthony tong wrote:

> Jerry Quinn (Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 11:52:15AM -0400):
> > Hi, all.  I'm finally annoyed enough by the 'a' chars generated by the caps
> > lock key on power computing keyboards under X to try to fix it.  In the
> > process, maybe it will be useful enough to actually swap it to be the control
> > key (as any good keyboard should be :-).
> 
> Didn't a patch from Fred Bacon get into on of the DR2 updates to take
> care of this? I forget how it worked around this problem, but I can
> did it up if you can't find it.

I didn't remember who committed it, but yeah, it's been in there for...
ever....  IIRC, some keyboards generate just two key downs for caps lock,
once per press, while those generate a key up.  I may be remembering
wrong, though.  It's something weird like that.


David


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