Ubuntu
bluez package

  1. Bug #1341256
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 1341256

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Ced (cedric-headroom) wrote : Re: Press caps lock on bluetooth keyboard then the keyboard go death

I had the same problem.
By pressing shift or caplock the MagicKeyboard wouldn't work anymore.

It turns out that the problem comes from the fact that I use the keyboard on both ubuntu and windows (dual boot).

When I connect the keyboard on ubuntu, it no longer works on windows because the keyboard and ubuntu share a sync key that windows does not know.
When I associate the keyboard on windows, it still works on ubuntu (when it shouldn't) until I press caplocks.
In fact, I think the bug is that the keyboard works a bit under ubuntu while the key is not good, if it returned an error we would find the problem right away.

To solve the problem, I reassociated the keyboard with windows and then I copied the connection key and I copied it in the bluetooth configuration of ubuntu.
Since my two OS share the same connection key for the keyboard, I don't have any more problems between the two OS and Capslock works well.

I followed this tutorial : https://desktopi18n.wordpress.com/2018/02/02/bluetooth-mouse-in-dual-boot-of-windows-10-and-linux/

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