caps lock as additional control broken on intrepid

[Stephen Hemminger]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

I upgraded from Hardy to Intrepid, and the setting "use capslock as additional control key" no longer works.
The setting is in:
         Preferences->Keyboard->Layouts->Other-Options->Ctrl key position
                 Make CapsLock an additional Ctrl
The radio button is on, but the terminal still has capslock.

This is a regression since it worked in earlier releases, Gusty, Hardy, ... on same machine.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for your report, that works correct for me here , could you try to reproduce the same with a new user created on your machine? thanks.

[Wolfgang (wolfgang-polak)]

This seems related: I'm running 8.04.1. After each restart caps lock acts as caps lock. I go to
Preferences->Keyboard->Layouts->Other-Options->Ctrl key position
and find that "Make CapsLock an additional Ctrl" is highlighted. I select some other choices and re-select "Make CapsLock an additional Ctrl" and my caps lock is now a control key.

[Rich Wales (richw)]

I'm seeing this same problem today, on a freshly installed, patched-up-to-date 8.04.1 desktop system.

[Rich Wales (richw)]

This appears to be the same problem as bug #173721.

The workaround described in http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Swap_Caps_Lock_and_Ctrl appears to fix it for me -- though, of course, this doesn't explain the strange bug with the preferences control panel option not working.

[Rich Wales (richw)]

I believe the relevant file with the settings from the keyboard preferences control panel is:

$HOME/.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard/kbd/%gconf.xml

Here's what it looks like on my freshly installed 8.04.01 system (where the caps lock -> control setting in the control panel is not effective after a restart):

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gconf>
        <entry name="options" mtime="1228022444" type="list" ltype="string">
                <li type="string">
                        <stringvalue>ctrl ctrl:nocaps</stringvalue>
                </li>
                <li type="string">
                        <stringvalue>Compose key compose:rwin</stringvalue>
                </li>
                <li type="string">
                        <stringvalue>eurosign eurosign:5</stringvalue>
                </li>
        </entry>
</gconf>

Note the first <stringvalue> in the <entry name="options"> section. It looks OK to me (it's the same info as what the above workaround said I should put in /etc/X11/xorg.conf), so I'm not sure why it wouldn't be working.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

The issue with settings not persisting across reboots is bug #173721 in gnome-control-center.