[winswitch] capslock acting like shiftlock?

Thomas Esposito tmesposito00 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 23 05:44:42 BST 2020


If I had to guess, I'd say the the xpra client is translating the capslock
to a shift before it ever gets to the server. Is that possible? If so, how
can I verify that this is happening and how would I fix it?

On Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 12:08 AM Thomas Esposito <tmesposito00 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> We finally upgraded from Centos 6.6 to 7.6 at work (it will be YEARS
> before we see 8.x) and I took the opportunity to upgrade xpra to 3.x.
>
> So far, everything seems to be working well, except for some strange
> keyboard behavior. My capslock key is acting as shiftlock (i.e. effects ALL
> keys, not just letters). I DON'T get this behavior in a VNC session on the
> same machine. I have compared xmodmap and setxkbmap settings between my vnc
> and xpra sessions and haven't found any differences that seem like they
> could explain this behavior.
>
> Any ideas?
>



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