Ctrl key position setting stops working

[Nat Tuck]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

This bug re-appeared after upgrading to Jaunty.

I set "Ctrl-key-position" in gnome-keyboard-properties to "Make Caps-Lock an additional Ctrl". This works for a while, but then arbitrarily returns to the default behavior at some point during normal desktop use (e.g. I hit "Caps-T" for a new tab in Firefox, and it inserts a capitol T and caps lock is on.)

I saw this behavior previously in Intrepid - it was in the known issues list for either the Intrepid beta or RC - and had worked around it by manually forcing the preference in xorg.conf with

in Section "InputDevice"
   Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"

I'm trying the old Intrepid work around now (set keyboard to "Evdev Managed Device"), but when that doesn't work I'll go back to the XkbOptions thing.

[Nat Tuck (nat-ferrus)]

The "Evdev Managed Device" thing doesn't help.

In xorg.conf, the InputDevice section is commented out with this comment "commented out by update-manager, HAL is now used". Even after uncommenting the appropriate things (the section and the InputDevice entry in ServerLayout), the "ctrl:nocaps" setting has no effect.

I've figured out when the keyboard resets to default behavior - when I switch away from the machine and back using my KVM switch. Unplugging the keyboard and plugging it back in surprisingly does not seem to have the same effect.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, is the keyboard redetected by xorg when you use the kvm switch? that would explain the bug since it would detect a new device and not apply the same configuration to this one

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the bug is similar to bug #363169

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

closing as duplicate