From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 20 14:17:06 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E50B27E2 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 14:17:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email2.allantgroup.com (email2.emsphone.com [199.67.51.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 968761C0B for ; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 14:17:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [172.17.17.101]) by email2.allantgroup.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r5KEGxjB083142 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:16:59 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.7/8.14.6) with ESMTP id r5KEGxTX014014 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:16:59 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.7/8.14.6/Submit) id r5KEGxKs014013; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:16:59 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:16:59 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Polytropon Subject: Re: showing CAPSLOCK state on display Message-ID: <20130620141659.GA49427@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20130619191900.GA1113@tiny.Sisis.de> <20130620153313.3f263642.freebsd@edvax.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130620153313.3f263642.freebsd@edvax.de> X-OS: FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.8 at email2.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (email2.allantgroup.com [172.17.19.78]); Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:16:59 -0500 (CDT) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on email2.allantgroup.com X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.73 Cc: Matthias Apitz , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 14:17:07 -0000 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