GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 648917
Cannot make caps lock an additional control key
Last modified: 2011-05-03 13:41:33 UTC
Having eventually found where the setting to switch my capslock key to act like a control key, I open the Region & Language preferences. I open the options for my keyboard (US English - there are no others). I click on the button to set caps lock to be an additional control key. The group gets highlighted indicating that a change was made. However, the capslock key continues to be a capslock instead of a control key. If I close the preferences and reopen it, the change is also forgotten there.
I just upgraded my system to try out gnome-shell and this is the first issue I hit. Debian testing, x86_64 jlquinn@cerberus:~$ dpkg -l gnome-control-center Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ ii gnome-control- 1:3.0.0.1-1 utilities to configure the GNOME desktop
What distribution do you use?
Debian testing, x86_64. When I had logged out and logged back in, I still had the gnome2 desktop. After some reading, I installed dconf-gsettings-backend, and rebooted the machine. The only code that package includes is /usr/lib/gio/modules/libdconfsettings.so Afterwards, I saw the gnome-shell environment and I could successfully change the capslock. Problem solved except for the fact that it wasn't working there for a while. So at the moment I don't know if the problem is that the control center wasn't able to get the change saved correctly without the dconf settings module, or if some other part of the system had not fully initialized. Downgrading to normal since it currently works.
This is a bug in your distribution. Something should drag in dconf but doesn't. Please file a bug against your distribution.