How to find capslock status?

dante4d · 2008-10-08 17:11:04

Hi,

how do I get capslock status and keyboard layout in a bash script?

Thanks
David

Mashi · 2008-10-08 19:19:30

Keyboard layout I don't know.

Caps lock status I think it depends on if you are using it in Gnome, KDE or without X... but there are some programs that to it.

http://www.truesoft.ch/dieter/kkeyled.html

search for keyled also.

I don't know which one will work for you..

dante4d · 2008-10-09 21:43:49

Mashi wrote:

Keyboard layout I don't know.
Caps lock status I think it depends on if you are using it in Gnome, KDE or without X... but there are some programs that to it.
http://www.truesoft.ch/dieter/kkeyled.html
search for keyled also.
I don't know which one will work for you..

That at least gives me a clue, thanks. I'm amazed that there are so few references about this topic... There probably is some X tool fot this, but I'm not very lucky with google this time...

moljac024 · 2008-10-09 22:04:18

Look at the keyboard and check if the caps lock lamp is on

tanis · 2008-10-09 22:55:02

Maybe you should check kdm's source? In the login/password dialog there is a warning if capslock is on.

Last edited by tanis (2008-10-09 22:55:22)

moljac024 · 2008-10-09 23:07:07

tanis wrote:

Maybe you should check kdm's source? In the login/password dialog there is a warning if capslock is on.

Oh yeah, that's a good idea, Also, gnome-screensaver (when unlocking the screen) shows a warning if caps lock is on.

Dusty · 2008-10-09 23:35:02

xset q | grep LED

should give you a bitmask of what the led status is in the last column. Run it through cut and manipulate it for fun times.

Dusty

dante4d · 2008-10-10 19:15:33

tanis wrote:

Maybe you should check kdm's source? In the login/password dialog there is a warning if capslock is on.

+1

Dusty wrote:

xset q | grep LED
should give you a bitmask of what the led status is in the last column. Run it through cut and manipulate it for fun times.

+1

Thanks

dante4d · 2008-10-10 19:19:51

moljac024 wrote:

Look at the keyboard and check if the caps lock lamp is on

And how does that tell my script that caps is on? I need to find the caps status when I press caps key and pipe the result somewhere. But I can see the good intention .

skottish · 2008-10-10 19:23:34

There are conditions under which the LEDs are wrong. For instance, I use numlockx at login to switch it on. Sometimes the LED is on, sometimes it's not. Right now it's off, but Num_Lock is still working.

--EDIT--

By the way, I can't believe how difficult it is to find this information. There are 657,765,234,434,234 hits on the first page alone of all search engines on how to disable Caps_Lock. Surely someone knows the magical shell command to find its current state?

Last edited by skottish (2008-10-10 22:59:24)

moljac024 · 2008-10-11 00:03:57

dante4d wrote:

moljac024 wrote:
Look at the keyboard and check if the caps lock lamp is on
And how does that tell my script that caps is on? I need to find the caps status when I press caps key and pipe the result somewhere. But I can see the good intention .

It was a joke Sorry if it offended you.

dante4d · 2008-10-11 17:45:26

skottish wrote:

There are conditions under which the LEDs are wrong. For instance, I use numlockx at login to switch it on. Sometimes the LED is on, sometimes it's not. Right now it's off, but Num_Lock is still working.
--EDIT--
By the way, I can't believe how difficult it is to find this information. There are 657,765,234,434,234 hits on the first page alone of all search engines on how to disable Caps_Lock. Surely someone knows the magical shell command to find its current state?

Well, that's it. I found zillions of pages on how to disable caps, bind it as a control, bind it as a escape... Whatever. But noone probably really cares about it's status.

I was also worried about the LED status, because that might be wrong.

Last edited by dante4d (2008-10-11 17:47:14)

dante4d · 2008-10-11 17:47:51

moljac024 wrote:

dante4d wrote:
moljac024 wrote:
Look at the keyboard and check if the caps lock lamp is on
And how does that tell my script that caps is on? I need to find the caps status when I press caps key and pipe the result somewhere. But I can see the good intention .
It was a joke Sorry if it offended you.

No problem, the guy with the vacuum cleaner joke

bender02 · 2008-10-11 22:19:40

For keyboard layout: look for skb on this page http://www.rootshell.be/~polachok/code/

NoSuck · 2015-03-13 20:39:38

I hereby invoke the powers of xkcd #979 and the Arch Wiki. The solution to this problem is simple.

# Queries:
xset -q | grep "Caps Lock: *on" 1>/dev/null
# Toggles:
xdotool key Caps_Lock

Inxsible · 2015-03-13 20:50:47

NoSuck,

After 7 years, I am sure the OP either found out how to do it or no longer gives a shit.

Please don't necrobump threads.

Closing...

EDIT : Just noticed, its your first post. Welcome to the forums

Last edited by Inxsible (2015-03-13 20:53:14)

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