capslock led after upgrade to xorg-server-1.4.2,1

[Paul B. Mahol]

On 6/19/08, Kevin Oberman <oberman at es.net> wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:37:18 +0200
>> From: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda at gmail.com>
>> Sender: owner-freebsd-x11 at freebsd.org
>>
>> It is upstream issue/regression. I liked how it was before ... but
>> Xorg devs have different opinion.
>
> Hmm. They have the opinion that busted is good?

I'm not sure that they really busted it for ever. (but I got such opinion)

Better to ask them directly.

> This has been annoying for a while. I swap CapsLock with LeftCtrl. I
> have done this ever since Microsoft decided to "hide" it down below the
> shift key. It has always worked fine, but it "broke" with xorg 7.2
> (or maybe 7.3). Now, to get ALT+CTRL to work, I need to press ALT first
> and then CTRL, which is not my natural tendancy. It's very annoying.
>
> I have confirmed with xev that all of the press/release events are
> proper, so it's something in the processing of the events that is
> foobar.
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