Keyboard mystery...

[cyberknight]

Okay, I know this is not a hardware problem, cuz it happens on both my laptop and desktop. I've tried plugging in other keyboards into my desktop and laptop, same thing It has to be software/settings related.

- I press Caps Lock. it turns on

- I press Caps Lock again, it DOES NOT turn off

- I press the Shift key, caps lock turns off.

Why is this? I must've did something, installed something that did this somewhere down the road. both my computers are pretty recently formatted too.

 

[cyberknight]

eh, giving this a bump

 

[lenjack]

Wow! That's a new one. I don't know the answer, but perhaps you could let a computerwise friend look at your setups. Sometimes it takes an extra set of eyes to spot something. Keep us informed.

 

[Markbnj]

Heh, sounds like it is functioning like shift-lock on old typewriters. I have no idea what is causing it. Let's start with what kind of keyboard you have.

Interesting, never knew about this. Have a look here...

http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=389

 

[Pwnbroker]

Since you don't tell us what OS you're running, I'm going to assume it's linux/unix and your using the wrong vt type.

 

[cyberknight]

Originally posted by: Markbnj
Heh, sounds like it is functioning like shift-lock on old typewriters. I have no idea what is causing it. Let's start with what kind of keyboard you have.

Interesting, never knew about this. Have a look here...

http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=389

hurray! not sure how the heck you googled cuz all the words being so common, but who cares.

I know I added Chinese writing to my Language settings. Not sure if doing I accidently hit that radio button or something auto defaulted to it. But it's weird that it happened to both my laptop and desktop.

Well now I can happily type in Caps and not have it turned off when I type in things like ()_+*

 

[Markbnj]

Originally posted by: cyberknight

Originally posted by: Markbnj
Heh, sounds like it is functioning like shift-lock on old typewriters. I have no idea what is causing it. Let's start with what kind of keyboard you have.

Interesting, never knew about this. Have a look here...

http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=389

hurray! not sure how the heck you googled cuz all the words being so common, but who cares.

I know I added Chinese writing to my Language settings. Not sure if doing I accidently hit that radio button or something auto defaulted to it. But it's weird that it happened to both my laptop and desktop.

Well now I can happily type in Caps and not have it turned off when I type in things like ()_+*

I think I searched on "shift lock caps setting".