Bug 4548 - When CapsLock is active on the client, applications sees this as Shift+symbols
Summary: When CapsLock is active on the client, applications sees this as Shift+symbols
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 400
Alias: None
Product: ThinLinc
Classification: Unclassified
Component: VNC (show other bugs)
Version: 3.2.0
Hardware: PC Unknown
: P2 Normal
Target Milestone: 4.9.0
Assignee: Pierre Ossman
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Depends on: 400
Blocks: keyboard
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Reported: 2013-02-27 13:05 CET by Peter Åstrand
Modified: 2018-04-23 13:31 CEST (History)
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Description Peter Åstrand cendio 2013-02-27 13:05:29 CET 
Currently, the VNC protocol does not provide any synchronization of CapsLock. When CapsLock is active on the client and the user presses, say, "j", this is transferred as XK_J. On the server side, Shift will be "faked" if necessary. CapsLock will never be activated. This means that applications cannot distinguish between Shift-j and CapsLock-j. 

One example of when this is a problem is when activating full screen mode in LibreOffice Writer. This is done with Ctrl-Shift-j. However, if CapsLock is active on the client, you must use Ctrl-j instead.
Comment 1 Peter Åstrand cendio 2013-02-27 13:08:13 CET 
See also bug 400.
Comment 3 Peter Åstrand cendio 2013-05-22 15:41:34 CEST 
For a 4.1 solution, we will need a XKB tool to activate CapsLock. This could be:

* A modified version of numlockx

* xkbset, available from http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen/software/
Comment 5 Peter Åstrand cendio 2013-05-27 10:41:10 CEST 
(In reply to comment #3)
> For a 4.1 solution, we will need a XKB tool to activate CapsLock. This could
> be:
> 
> * A modified version of numlockx
> 
> * xkbset, available from http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen/software/

It turns out that https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool can do this. Thus, to set Caps lock in the TL session, one can create a script in xstartup.d that looks like:

#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/xdotool.static key Caps_Lock
Comment 7 Pierre Ossman cendio 2018-01-23 14:00:55 CET 
Bug 400 has been fixed upstream, so this will be resolved with the next vendor drop.
Comment 8 Pierre Ossman cendio 2018-04-23 13:31:14 CEST 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 400 ***
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