[13316] in Athena Bugs
Re: xscreensaver on SGI Indy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Sun Mar 12 21:08:59 1995
To: Eric Mumpower <nocturne@MIT.EDU>
Cc: belville@MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@MIT.EDU, ghudson@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 21:08:53 EST
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
>> For me, this generates some confusing behavior on a Sun. By default,
>> I xmodmap the "Caps Lock" key to something innocuous, like "shift".
>> Regardless of this fact, the Caps Lock key still causes the key's
>> Caps-Lock indicator light to switch on and off, even though it does
>> nothing to change the capitalization of the characters I
>> type. However, when the key is lit, I observe the same xscreensaver
>> behavior as I observed on the Decstation. (i.e. I can pull down the
>> menu, but cannot select any of its options.)
This is a long-standing bug in the sun X server. The Sun X server
treats whatever key has the Caps_Lock keysym as special, even if it is
not in the lock modifier list. If I've never reported this before,
this should be considered a bug report.
instead of doing
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
add Control = Caps_Lock
do
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = Control_R
add Control = Control_R
Marc
