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describe-key on Linux thinks capslock mapped to control is still capslock

Open davidmichaelkarr opened this issue 9 years ago • 0 comments

I have Emacs+ installed on both a Win7 box with Luna, and a Linux box with Mars. Otherwise, the Eclipse settings are identical. The other thing that is identical is that I have mapped (in some way) the CapsLock key to be an additional Control key. This is done on Windows with SysInternals Ctrl2Cap, and on Linux with TweakTool.

I have numerous bindings that have a prefix using at least the Ctrl key, which I press using the CapsLock key. These bindings all work fine (as far as I know) on both platforms. On the Win7 box, if I execute the "describe-key" function (whether manually or by binding) and then press one of those bindings, using the CapsLock key as the Ctrl key, it detects the proper key sequence and tells me what the binding is.

However, if I do the same thing on the Linux box, as soon as I touch the CapsLock key, it immediately responds with "CapsLock is unbound". And again, the bindings are still there, and work, but "describe-key" is confused.

davidmichaelkarr avatar Oct 04 '15 22:10 davidmichaelkarr