Comments on: Disable Caps Lock

By: Miraz Jordan

Miraz Jordan — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:58:00 +0000

Ramon emailed: “The external keyboard for the mac mini. Very sleek, low profile, aluminum keyboard.”

I say: Yup, sounds like the keyboard’s faulty.

By: Miraz Jordan

Miraz Jordan — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:31:11 +0000

Ramon emailed:

“External Apple branded keyboard. No other USB devices except mouse plugged in. No hub. Other Apple keyboard does not have same problem.”

I say: sounds like the keyboard is faulty and it needs to be repaired.

By: Miraz Jordan

Miraz Jordan — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 01:55:11 +0000

That sounds annoying! I’m afraid I can’t help re taking the keyboard to bits.

Is it the built-in keyboard on a laptop, or an external keyboard? Do you have any other devices connected that might affect it? Is it an Apple brand keyboard? Can it be plugged in to a different port? Is it going through a hub? Could you plug in a different keyboard and see if that has the same problem?

I’d suggest ruling out other possible causes of problems before taking the keyboard to bits.

Cheers,

Miraz

By: Ramon

Ramon — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 01:49:12 +0000

….darn keyboard. I disabled the “caps lock” because it activated the “a” key. As I was saying, the tilde “~” key activates the 1 key and the 1 key activates ` so these pairs of keys all work when one of the other is pressed. How do I disassemble the keyboard to see what is inside?

By: Ramon

Ramon — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 23:18:05 +0000

The ~ key, tab key, caps lock key all activate the key to their right. So pressing ~ eq

By: Miraz Jordan

Miraz Jordan — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 19:27:10 +0000

Good thinking Donald. Thanks.

By: Donald E. Payne

Donald E. Payne — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:55:24 +0000

Good tip. If you’re afraid that you’ll forget about the dead key, you might label the key. If you don’t want to _deface_ it, you could use a small piece of sticky note paper.

By: uwe jansch

uwe jansch — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 09:11:33 +0000

Hi, I have the opposite problem. My cap lock is always off again after restart ??
I am running in the latest OS Leopard.
Thanks
Uwe

By: Miraz Jordan

Miraz Jordan — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:03:52 +0000

Thanks Dae. That’s an interesting way to make Caps Lock more useful.

I write only in English – it hadn’t occurred to me that some people may want to change their keyboard layout routinely in the way you describe.

By: Dae

Dae — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:41:35 +0000

I decided to make some use of it, now it changes my input language:
http://dae.cyberic.eu/blog/select-input-language-by-caps-lock-in-mac-os-x

(sorry for spamming, but this seems pretty much relevant)