CapsLock LED still lights after change to CTRL key

[Paul Smith]

I have used the keyboard layout options to set my CapsLock key to be an extra CTRL key. In Gutsy and before this worked fine. In Hardy it's not working in two ways:

First, if my CapsLock was ON when I converted the CapsLock to a CTRL key, it stays on and I cannot turn it off again unless I set the CapsLock back to the default, turn off CapsLock, then set it back to CTRL. this _might_ have happened in Gutsy; I can't say for sure.

Second, and more annoying/important: even though I've converted my CapsLock key to a CTRL key, the CapsLock LED is still turning itself on and off when I press the CapsLock key. This is new in Hardy; it didn't used to do this in Gutsy. This seems like a small thing but it's actually pretty annoying since that blinking LED really distracts me. I've had to put some electrical tape over the LED.

I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 (all updates):

ii xserver-xorg-input-kbd 1:1.2.2-3ubuntu1

[Paisa Seeluangsawat (paisa)]

I also have this problem upgrading from 7.10 to 8.04.

I swapped the Capslock and LeftCtrl keys through gnome-keyboard-properties. This works fine, except that the Capslock LED light toggles every time I hit the physical Capslock key. I also confirm that this is indeed distracting :-).

[Egor (egor-p)]

I also have this problem upgrading from 7.10 to 8.04.

[Paul Smith (psmith-gnu)]

I've upgraded three different systems with different kinds of keyboards etc. and every one shows this bug.

Still very annoying, still hoping someone will fix it.... :-/.

[Shreevatsa R (shreevatsa)]

I have (a variant of?) this problem too.

When I ask GNOME, in System → Preferences → Keyboard → Layouts → Layout Options → Ctrl key position, to "Swap Ctrl and CapsLock", it swaps them, but the LED is still controlled by the old CapsLock key. So, like the original reporter, my LED still lights when hitting Control, and, in addition, the LED does not indicate when I have caps lock on or off.

I don't have this problem when I do the swap using xmodmap (using the snippet given in the manpage), so I'd think this is a problem with something GNOME-specific, rather than xserver-xorg-input-keyboard.