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

[Andriy Gapon]

on 19/06/2008 19:08 Paul B. Mahol said the following:
> On 6/19/08, Andriy Gapon <avg at icyb.net.ua> wrote:
>> on 19/06/2008 16:37 Paul B. Mahol said the following:
>>> It is upstream issue/regression. I liked how it was before ... but
>>> Xorg devs have different opinion.
>> Could you please expand a little bit on this? particular commit or
>> discussion or something?
>>
> 
> xset led {1-32} doesnt work any more as it was before (only Scroll
> Lock LED can be turned on/off).
> 
> I guess it was caused by new version of xf86-input drivers, I never
> found issue so imortant to fix it myself.


I don't think that this is related to my issue.
In fact, I think that what you described is controlled by 
xkeyboard-config settings.
In /usr/local/share/X11/xkb/compat/led* allowExplicit is set only for 
Scroll Lock, Num Lock and Caps Lock have !allowExplicit. That means that 
X applications can not directly change them, which is exactly what you 
describe.
This is still configurable, but not in a convenient way though.

>> BTW, what's strange too is that if I use xkbvleds then it reflects Caps
>> Lock LED changes caused by "new"/remapped Caps Lock button but it
>> doesn't respond to the "old"/normal Caps Lock button. But physical LED
>> responds to both.
>>
>> --
>> Andriy Gapon
>>


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Andriy Gapon