[winswitch] capslock acting like shiftlock?

[Thomas Esposito]

> "Shift" and "Caps_Lock" are treated interchangeably by the key mapping
code for non-native keymaps. (non-X11 clients for seamless servers)

I'm not sure what you mean by "non-native keymaps" in this context.

FWIW, my xpra client is running on Windows 10 and I'm using the same xpra
client version (3.0) that I was using when the xpra server version was 1.x
running on Centos 6.6. I didn't have this problem before.

Also not sure what you mean when you say that "Shift" and "Caps_Lock" are
treated interchangeably. Are you talking about the xpra client? It sounds
like this explains my problem but that can't be because I haven't changed
the client, only the server OS version and the xpra version running on it.


On Fri, Oct 23, 2020, 5:08 AM Antoine Martin via shifter-users <
shifter-users at lists.devloop.org.uk> wrote:

> On 23/10/2020 11:44, Thomas Esposito via shifter-users wrote:
> > 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?
> No, the client tries hard not not modify key events before sending them
> to the server.
>
> > If so, how
> > can I verify that this is happening and how would I fix it?
> Run the server and client with "-d keyboard" to get details on events
> and how they are processed.
> (just be aware that this is hard to interpret as it is very verbose)
>
> "Shift" and "Caps_Lock" are treated interchangeably by the key mapping
> code for non-native keymaps. (non-X11 clients for seamless servers)
>
> To fix it, please file a ticket as per:
> https://xpra.org/trac/wiki/Keyboard#ReportingBugs
>
> Cheers,
> Antoine
>
>
>
> >
> > 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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