Re: [gnome-love] CapsLock indicator for GNOME menu?

[Calum Benson - Sun Ireland Usability Engineer <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 17:28 +0100, Calum Benson - Sun Ireland Usability
Engineer wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 16:33 +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> > This might be off-topic, but wasn't really sure where to turn with my
> > problem. Hope you don't mind ;)
> >
> > I am getting really irritated with my keyboard. It has no indicators for
> > the state of CapsLock and friends. I thought it'd be nice to have a
> > little applet in my GNOME menu that indicates the state of the keyboard.
> > Is there such a thing already?
>
> Yes, the Keyboard Accessibility Status Indicator applet does this, and
> has been part of GNOME since 2.6 or so.

I tell a lie... it will show you if you've locked caps (and friends) by
pressing a Shift twice when sticky keys is turned on, but not if you
just press Caps Lock.  That's possibly a good feature request :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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