Bug#593742: iceweasel: caps lock toggles bookmarks sidebar

[Tom Vier]

On 08/20/2010 01:07 PM, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:39:42PM -0400, Tom wrote:
>> Package: iceweasel
>> Version: 3.5.11-1
>> Severity: important
>>
>>
>> (retrying this bug report due to setup problem)
>>
>> In testing, caps lock toggles the bookmarks bar. View->Sidebar->Bookmarks
>> shows ctrl-b as the shortcut, which also works. I created a new user and it
>> had the same problem.
>
> Can you run "xev" in a console, press CAPS LOCK while the focus is on
> xev, and copy/paste the corresponding event it prints on the console,
> then?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mike

Sure. It's keycode 66 on press, keycode 164 for repeat and release.

It must be a keymap related because I just tried Firefox 3.5.11 under XP 
in vmware player and it's doing the same thing. I rebooted w/o the 
vmware modules to make sure that wasn't messing with the kbd drivers.

BTW, Icedove is doing a similar thing (I haven't gotten around to 
opening a bug for that). It pulls up the address book when I hit caps 
lock. Other apps seem fine: openoffice, various cli apps un rxvt and 
gnome terminal.


MappingNotify event, serial 57, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
     request MappingKeyboard, first_keycode 8, count 248

KeyRelease event, serial 57, synthetic NO, window 0x4000001,
     root 0x110, subw 0x0, time 82598696, (170,-11), root:(194,125),
     state 0x2, keycode 66 (keysym 0xffe5, Caps_Lock), same_screen YES,
     XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
     XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 58, synthetic NO, window 0x4000001,
     root 0x110, subw 0x0, time 82598705, (170,-11), root:(194,125),
     state 0x2, keycode 164 (keysym 0x1008ff30, XF86Favorites), 
same_screen YES,
     XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
     XFilterEvent returns: False

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Tom Vier <tom at triadsys.com>
Senior Net/Sys Admin
Triad Systems Engineering, Inc.