Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:16:59 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: showing CAPSLOCK state on display Message-ID: <20130620141659.GA49427@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20130620153313.3f263642.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20130619191900.GA1113@tiny.Sisis.de> <20130620153313.3f263642.freebsd@edvax.de>
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In the last episode (Jun 20), Polytropon said: > On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:19:01 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > 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? > > Maybe something like this is suitable? > > Port: gai-leds-0.6_6 > Path: /usr/ports/sysutils/gai-leds > Info: A GAI applet that displays the keyboard status leds > > Port: gkleds2-0.8.2_6 > Path: /usr/ports/sysutils/gkleds2 > Info: GKrellM Leds for CapsLock, NumLock and ScrollLock > > But don't look at the dependency lists, they're terrible. :-) xkbvleds and xkbwatch might also do what you want, with no extra dependencies apart from X itself. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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