Re: Keystroking Terminal.app with case
Re: Keystroking Terminal.app with case
- Subject: Re: Keystroking Terminal.app with case
- From: "Gary (Lists)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:34:00 -0400
- Thread-topic: Keystroking Terminal.app with case
"Doug McNutt" wrote:
> It failed the other day when a familiar problem with my ADB keyboard on a USB
> port got its caps lock key backward. It will have the LED locked indicator
> backwards until the OS neXt gods change their minds. It usually takes a week's
> worth of nightime shutdowns.
Mark R. answered about the keystroke stuff. Makes sense.
Doug, I also used (until 3 days ago, actually[*]) my trusty old ADB keyboard
with one of those USB converter contraptions and I also would sometimes
experience the Caps Lock confusion (light on but not caps lock).
In my case, 9 times out of 10, pressing the Caps Lock key and holding it in
just briefly synchronized the toggle state with the LED state.
However, that 1 time out of 10, a simple disconnect of the cable did the
trick. You might find that faster than rebooting 10 times.
I don't think you can pin this one on "the OS neXt gods" or the
Terminal.app.
I mean, we *are* using an old ADB keyboard with some cheap Chinese USB
connector cord!
(Bill Briggs helped me try to narrow down a problem well over a year ago,
where I couldn't boot up Panther with modifier keys down, so I could boot
from another volume. We tried all kinds of things, with no luck. Turned to
be that USB widget, which just wasn't yet communicating with the OS at that
stage, and so...there you go. It's not the OS'es fault, Doug. It's *us*
for being either cheapskates or for being so attached to our favorite
keyboards that we just can't let go. :)
--
Gary
[*] My department was tossing a bunch of (5) awesome extended Apple
keyboards because "they don't work". I took the whole lot of them, cleaned
them with some compressed air and a damp cloth, all but 1 works flawlessly!
I have now ditched my old ADB+USB converter for a new extended KB and I also
have one for my iBook.
Sweet, sweet trash.
(And Apple's design is kind of crappy, because every dead skin cell,
eyelash, and granola falls right in and gets trapped in the Lucite base.
It's a silly design, to be sure.)
I still like my old one better, because it has the "feel" of an IBM
Selectric keypad, which I prefer of the "soft" gel-pad keyboards. But, alas,
since it's mechanical (with springs and metal), it's just getting too
old...like 12 years too old.
I apply the wisdom of Click and Clack -- the Car Talk guys -- to computers
and equipment: Never (ever!) buy new.
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