showing CAPSLOCK state on display

Christoph Moench-Tegeder cmt at burggraben.net
Thu Jun 20 11:14:50 UTC 2013


## Matthias Apitz (guru at unixarea.de):

> I'm running 10-CURRENT on my small netbook EeePC 900; the device has
> only a set of four lights (powered on, battery loading, disk i/o, WLAN) and
> no indicator more, especially not for CAPSLOCK. So you don't know the
> state of it and have to try in in a terminal (which sometimes gives
> funny results when you write something with vim); some days ago I saw on
> a Windows 7 laptop that it showed CAPSLOCK in some small overlay text
> on-screen on the right sight. That would be just what I wanted for my
> KDE3 desktop... any ideas for KDE or X11?

What about xkbvleds (from xkbutils)? And KDE3... maybe sysutils/kkeyled
(the usual QT3-disclaimer applies...).

Regards,
Christoph

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