Something is remapping Caps Lock to Esc.

PenaflorPhi · 2022-05-05 23:30:19

Caps Lock stops working after a while, I'm not sure what's triggering this behavior because it works normally on boot and it works for a while after login. I tried using xev to see if the key is being registered, it is giving me this

KeyPress event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x4200001,
    root 0x3b2, subw 0x0, time 1766188, (-218,55), root:(493,465),
    state 0x2010, keycode 66 (keysym 0xff1b, Escape), same_screen YES,
    XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 9
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (1b) "
mbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (1b) "
FilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x4200001,
    root 0x3b2, subw 0x0, time 1766292, (-218,55), root:(493,465),
    state 0x2010, keycode 66 (keysym 0xff1b, Escape), same_screen YES,
    XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 9
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (1b) "
FilterEvent returns: False

It looks almost the same as what I get when I press the Escape key.

KeyPress event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x4200001,
    root 0x3b2, subw 0x0, time 1846624, (257,-302), root:(968,108),
    state 0x10, keycode 9 (keysym 0xff1b, Escape), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (1b) "
mbLookupString gives 1 bytes: (1b) "
FilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x4200001,
    root 0x3b2, subw 0x0, time 1846776, (257,-302), root:(968,108),
    state 0x10, keycode 9 (keysym 0xff1b, Escape), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 1 bytes: (1b) "
FilterEvent returns: False

According to Solaar my keyboard still has 40% charge, disconnecting the keyboard dongle works sometimes, rebooting the computer always work. Any suggestion?

seth · 2022-05-06 06:25:37

setxkbmap -print -query
xmodmap -pk | grep 66

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#1 2022-05-05 23:30:19

Something is remapping Caps Lock to Esc.

#2 2022-05-06 06:25:37

Re: Something is remapping Caps Lock to Esc.

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