From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 19 19:19:15 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2927A864 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:19:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from ms16-1.1blu.de (ms16-1.1blu.de [89.202.0.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E47241A02 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:19:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.113.99.38] (helo=tiny.Sisis.de) by ms16-1.1blu.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UpNuK-0001Ri-Qc for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:19:05 +0200 Received: from tiny.Sisis.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tiny.Sisis.de (8.14.5/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r5JJJ2Qo001137 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:19:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: (from guru@localhost) by tiny.Sisis.de (8.14.5/8.14.3/Submit) id r5JJJ22u001136 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:19:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) X-Authentication-Warning: tiny.Sisis.de: guru set sender to guru@unixarea.de using -f Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:19:01 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: showing CAPSLOCK state on display Message-ID: <20130619191900.GA1113@tiny.Sisis.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT r235646 (i386) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Con-Id: 51246 X-Con-U: 0-guru X-Originating-IP: 82.113.99.38 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:19:15 -0000 Hi, I'm running 10-CURRENT on my small netbook EeePC 900; the device has only a set of four lights (powered on, battery loading, disk i/o, WLAN) and no indicator more, especially not for CAPSLOCK. So you don't know the state of it and have to try in in a terminal (which sometimes gives funny results when you write something with vim); some days ago I saw on a Windows 7 laptop that it showed CAPSLOCK in some small overlay text on-screen on the right sight. That would be just what I wanted for my KDE3 desktop... any ideas? An option would be to turn off the light "powered on" when CAPSLOCK, because this light is always on when the netbook is up and one seldome use CAPSLOCK; Thanks matthias -- Sent from my FreeBSD netbook Matthias Apitz, , http://www.unixarea.de/ f: +49-170-4527211 UNIX since V7 on PDP-11, UNIX on mainframe since ESER 1055 (IBM /370) UNIX on x86 since SVR4.2 UnixWare 2.1.2, FreeBSD since 2.2.5