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gnome-settings-daemon package

When using "Make Caps Lock an additional Ctrl" keyboard option, doing a dist-upgrade causes caps lock to revert to a caps lock key

Bug #728797 reported by Tom Adams
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gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

1. Enable "Make Caps Lock an additional Ctrl" (Explained in comment #3)
2. Run update-manager -d and follow the steps
3. Caps lock's behavior reverts to enabling/disabling caps lock during the "installing packages" step (I think)

To fix, I had to go into Keyboard Layout Options, and then uncheck and check the "Make Caps Lock an additional Ctrl" option.
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Architecture: amd64DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
EcryptfsInUse: YesInstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
Package: update-manager 1:0.146.1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-generic 2.6.38-rc6Tags: natty running-unity
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic x86_64UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-03-04 (1 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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RedSingularity (redsingularity) wrote :

Thanks for taking the time to report this. Where exactly is the "Make Caps Lock an additional Ctrl" option you are speaking of? Also before we continue, please run:

apport-collect 728797

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Tom Adams (holizz) wrote : Dependencies.txt

apport information

tags: added: apport-collected natty running-unity
description: updated
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Tom Adams (holizz) wrote :

I haven't reported any bugs in Ubuntu in a long while. I'd forgotten how pleasant the Ubuntu community is. Thank you, RedSingularity.

And this is how I find the option:
Keyboard Preferences > Layouts > Options... > Ctrl key position > Make Caps Lock an additional Ctrl

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RedSingularity (redsingularity) wrote :

Great! Thanks for that info. One more thing; Did you notice this on an upgrade from 10.10 to 11.04?

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Tom Adams (holizz) wrote :

Oh, yes. It was from 10.10 to 11.04.

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RedSingularity (redsingularity) wrote :

Confirmed issue on my machine. Marking "Confirmed" for now. I may change the package though before giving it a "triaged" stamp and an importance level, so standby on that. Will get back to you ASAP.

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
description: updated
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RedSingularity (redsingularity) wrote :

Problem at hand is with the program "gnome-keyboard-properties", which is part of the package "gnome-control-center". Assigning to that package.
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affects: update-manager (Ubuntu) → gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

The capplet is only an ui setting the option it's not what makes it applied or wouldn't change it latter especially if the capplet is closed, reassigning to gnome-settings-daemon but it could be also something on the xorg side which reset the value during the upgrade

affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) → gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Confirmed
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Possibly related to bug 769571.

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RedSingularity (redsingularity) wrote :

Yeah, it seems to be a duplicate of that bug. Marking.
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