Caps Lock delay gone?

I think for the new aluminum keyboard, Apple introduced a delay in the Caps Lock key to avoid hitting it mistakenly. I found this very irritating because I remap it to Control. In 10.5 I noticed there's now no delay, which I am very happy about. Anyone know any details on this? Is the delay gone, is it gone only when Caps Lock is changed to another key, etc.? I hope this is simply not a bug.

Thanks for workaround but it's not good with me. I think that using Caps Lock is more comfortable and to use Caps Lock that works I like, is even better .

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Caps lock delay

Snow Leopard had a thing that delayed caps lock enabling for a second or so so accidental presses were ignored.
Now I have mountain lion and this delay is gone. Both on my Macbook Pro and iMac (with bluetooth keyboard).
I can't find settings or anything sensible on it. Does this feature still exist or did Apple in all it's stupendous wisdom remove yet again a usefull feature?
I've reset my Pram multiple times already.
I, for another issue, reinstalled the Macbook a while ago and the issue persists through that.
I've reset settings (plists removal) and changed settings and back to trigger a renewal of plists.
I've installed all updates that got prompted to me. I always keep up to date.
Nothing seems to work.
Any ideas besides learning to hit A properly? Thanks a lot in advance!

You must be the only person who likes this "feature", and you're the only person who "fixed" it to how the rest of us want it to be!
My new MacBook Pro's internal keyboard and external aluminum keyboard still have the delay (which I hate!).
Must be another problem, because it isn't like Apple disabled this delay for the rest of us who, can type correctly without "help", asked them to. Good luck in your endeavor. I wish I had your "problem"!

Remove "Caps Lock" Delay

I have one issue with the macbooks, I found that Apple has designed the caps lock button on the notebook keyboards to not turn on unless you hold on it. Is there a way to remove the delay so i can just press it fast and it turns on?

Hi
this was discussed and kindof fixed in this thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3629790?start=15&tstart=0

My cap lock is gone

I have this feature enabled under keyboard settings,However when the keyboard shows up i do not see this option.Thanks

lawrence gelman wrote:
I have this feature enabled under keyboard settings,However when the keyboard shows up i do not see this option.Thanks
When the iPhone keyboard pops up, there actually is no "Caps Lock" key. Double-tap on the shift key (up arrow button), and it will turn blue. When it turns blue, you know you have Caps Lock on.

Disabling the caps lock delay on the aluminum keyboard

Is there any way of turning off the accidental caps-lock press prevention on the new Apple keyboards? (http://www.tuaw.com/2007/10/07/new-apple-keyboard-has-protection-against-acciden tal-caps-lock/)
I use my caps lock key as Control (SysPrefs -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Keyboard -> Modified Keys), and the bounce protection cause me no end of trouble - it is still enabled, though I am not using that key for caps lock.
I called Apple support, and they told me to return the keyboard. I do not think this will make a difference, but maybe a Genius can help me out.

Thanks for your suggestion Tom, but that's not really what we're trying to do.
On early keyboards (when I started typing on computer terminals (in the 70s/80s, yes, before personal computers, the Control key was the key to the left of "A". That was great for programmers since lots of things used Control (shell, Emacs, etc). At some point, the Powers That Be (TM) decided that Caps Lock belonged to the left of the "A" key, so people like me spent their time either hoarding the old-style keyboards or finding ways of putting Control 'back where it should be'.
So disabling Caps Lock altogether does not achieve this goal. And until the Aluminum keyboard, ALL other Apple keyboards have worked fine under OSX using the Keyboard Modifier Key swap to simply make Caps Lock be Control. This Aluminum keyboard still makes the switch and works, but at the cost of having to hold the key longer as if it still were the Caps Lock key. Many typists may not even notice this difference, but to a touch-typist, the key seems simply not to work at all.
/d

MIDI note delay / stagger using Caps Lock keyboard and 3rd party plugins

Whenever I am using any of the following plugins:
Waldorf PPG Wave, Waldorf D-Pole or Audio Damage Reverence,
with the respective plugin windows open, I can hit several notes on the Caps Lock keyboard simultaneously and some of them will trigger after the rest.
Interestingly, Reverence and D-Pole are effects, and so placing them on any audio instrument, including those that came with Logic, causes them to behave as PPG Wave always does when its plugin window is open.
The delay time seems to be variable.
When the plugin windows are closed, there is no delay.
As well, triggering many notes at once or notes in quick succession seems to cause things to stagger up more.
Sometimes the MIDI notes get stuck and continue playing until they are pushed again.
This seems strange to me, as CPU usage on the plugins is extremely low (the CPU meter does not even register a single mark).
The problem does NOT occur if I draw out a MIDI sequence that does precisely the sort of things that cause the holdups when I am using the Caps Lock keyboard.
Is the Caps Lock keyboard just not very good at certain things?
Why would this problem occur only with these specific plugins?
None of Logic's included plugins have this problem (unless of course I stick Reverence or D-Pole on them as an insert and open the Reverence window).
Naturally this is an inconvenience that can be worked around, but it is annoying.
Thanks for your time.

Hey Rob,
I opened up the Activity Monitor, and CPU usage in Logic Express is 35-40% with the plugin window open and between 16-20% with it closed.
That doesn't seem to be it, but your suggestion that the Caps Lock keyboard is probably just not good at handling many notes at once is definitely correct.
I plugged in a MIDI keyboard and the CPU usage is the same, but there is no staggering problem.
Perhaps there is something off with the CPU meter in Logic Express 7, though.
The Audio side registers activity, but the CPU side says nothing, when clearly the Activity Monitor has it right.
Anyway, thank you for answering my question--it is sort of an annoying little problem, but I just won't play fast with Caps Lock, I suppose.
Vince

Caps lock - where has it gone?

Hello
My iPod Touch has a Caps Lock function - if I double tap the Shift key it turns blue to indicate Caps Lock
My iPhone 3G doesn't do this. Not a great worry, just a bit intrigued as to where the function has gone. It's mentioned in manuals etc, just not available on my phone
Ian

The function is still there
Settings > General > Keyboard
Make sure enable caps lock is on.

HELP! Caps lock green light gone out?

The caps lock green light has gone out on my brand new keyboard (wireless) bought with my new iMac. It's now impossible to determine whether I'm using upper or lower case when typing passwords, and causing my HUGE problems. Searched for an answer for the last two hours but failed. Is it a faulty keyboard or have I pressed something to switch it off??????? Keyboard battery level is 95%, so not batteries to blame. I'm new to MACs

Similar problem. Noticed that the light was out. Battery level showed 100%. Removed and reinserted the batteries. Turned the keyboard back on. Now, caps lock light is again working.
Seem to be an intermittent problem.
Not nearly as annoying as the yellow tinge. Hope to get that fixed once Apple gets their act together. Quality seems to be slipping.

HT1338 My MacBook Pro (running Leopard 10.5.8) won't allow keyboard to type an upper case 'C' using the shift key...works fine with caps lock, or, with my Typinator workaround using double-typed lower case c (not always best). Any ideas?

My MacBook Pro keyboard won't type an upper case 'C' using the shift key... only with caps lock. Workaround has been to use Typinator by typing a double lower case c, not always the best solution. Mac is a refurbished model, which initially was fine. Apple tech helped me correct the quirk when it first appeared, but now it has returned and refuses fixes. Any ideas?

I'm willing to bet that this has something to do with iCloud. I've been facing a frozen computer nearly every time I go into it.
In Activity Monitor I have seen two programs associate with iCloud that take up about 2.5 GB of memory (I only have 4 in the computer) -- causing everything to freeze. One of these is called "iCloud Helper" and the other one is something like "Address Book Sync helper" -- I see parts of these names in the stuff you have posted.
I am at my wits' end with these and have written to Apple asking them to do away with these or fix them. To get rid of the Address book sync thing I have gone into system preferences for iCloud and unchecked Contacts -- but then spontaneously it gets rechecked. And oftentimes after I Force Quit the iCloud helper, it spontaneously turns on again. My conclusion --- the iCloud is basically unusable. It turns a Mac into the most useless, clogged, sluggish PC. If this is happening to a lot of people's computers -- and I see no reason why yours or mine should be an exception -- these programs just might destroy Apple itself.
So -- I'm about to completely give up on iCloud, and I suspect that others will too unless this gets fixed.
Cheers,
Bob

[KDE 4.9] Using a shell script as a KDE shortcut - Caps Lock Notify

Hi, all
I was trying to create a small script to send a notification if the Caps Lock is active or not. The script works correctly in the terminal, but when I use the script as a shortcut in KDE it does not work ... I simply trigger the shortcut with the "Caps Lock".
Below is the script that I created:
#!/bin/bash
# Send a notification of CAPS LOCK on/off
# Icon used in the notification
icon="/usr/share/icons/NITRUX/devices/48/keyboard.svg"
# verify if the CAPS is on/off
value=$(xset q | grep "LED mask" | sed -r "s/.*LED mask:\s+[0-9a-fA-F]+([0-9a-fA-F]).*/\1/")
if [ "$value" == "0" ]; then
output="Off"
else
output="On"
fi
# Send notification (use Gnome or KDE)
# GNOME
#notify-send -i $icon "Caps Lock $output" -t 1000
#KDE
kdialog --icon $icon --passivepopup "Caps Lock $output" --title "Keyboard" 1
Could someone help me pointing what I'm doing wrong?
Thanks in advance!
EDIT: If I do not use the "caps lock" as a trigger, the script works as it should (I tried using "ctrl + alt + L") ...
Last edited by gustavosg (2012-11-13 00:06:46)

Pajaro wrote:
gustavosg wrote:
Pajaro wrote:try sending the dialog with a delay in background
Hi! Thanks for replying. I've tried the sleep command, still saying that caps is always on (if it is what you mean).
What I meant is to do something like:
$(sleep .5; echo kdialog --icon $icone --passivepopup "Caps Lock $saida" --title "Teclado" 1) &
When I use it on the script it just printi "Caps" on the notification, as if it was reading just the first word of the "Caps Lock $saida".
Edited the script to this:
#!/bin/bash
# Manda aviso de CAPS LOCK on/off
# icone pra usar na notificacao
icone="/usr/share/icons/NITRUX/devices/48/keyboard.svg"
# verifica se o Caps esta ligado
valor=$(xset q | grep "LED mask" | sed -r "s/.*LED mask:\s+[0-9a-fA-F]+([0-9a-fA-F]).*/\1/")
if [ "$valor" == "0" ]; then
$(sleep .5; echo kdialog --icon $icone --passivepopup "Caps Lock Off" --title "Teclado" 1) &
else
$(sleep .5; echo kdialog --icon $icone --passivepopup "Caps Lock On" --title "Teclado" 1) &
fi
# Dispara alerta (usar Gnome ou KDE)
# GNOME
#notify-send -i $icone "Caps Lock $saida" -t 1000
#KDE
#$(sleep .5; echo kdialog --icon $icone --passivepopup "Caps Lock $saida" --title "Teclado" 1) &
cfr wrote:
Maybe you could post the script if you are still having trouble?
Thanks for the info about single key short cuts. I guess it has never occurred to me. (Maybe because on a laptop you can't usually spare a whole key for a single short cut!)
The script is the one in the OP. I'm using a laptop.
EDIT:
Updated OP script to english...
Last edited by gustavosg (2012-11-13 00:07:38)

Performance problem when using CAPS LOCK piano input

Dear reader,
I'm very new to Logic and am running into a performance problem when using the CAPS LOCK-piano-keyboard for input of an instrument: when I'm not recording everything is fine and the program instantly responds on my keystrokes, but as soon as I go into record-mode there is sometimes a delay in the response-time (so I press a key and it takes up to half a second longer before the note is actually played).
Is there anything to do about this to improve performance (for example turning of certain features of the application), or should I never use the CAPS LOCK keyboard anyway and go straight for an external MIDI-keyboard?
Thanks and regards,
Tim Metz

Does your project have Audio tracks and just how heavy it is, how many tracks? Also, what kind of Software Instrument do you use?

Unix command to turn "off" caps lock or turn it "on" on lab machines

Hi,
I'd like to be able to send a unix command to a lab of panther eMacs. I'm using Apple Remote Desktop 3.2 I would like to send both "turn on cap locks" to all the machines, or "turn off cap locks to all the machines.
Many of my "Send Unix Command" are applescripts (osascript....) so either a unix command or applescript command would be welcome.
Thanks!

Well, I've been busy trying some things and found a beautiful little applescript that will turn off caps lock on 10.4 machines and newer. I'll paste it in below. Here's the problem...
I can't seem to get it to run in ARD as a unix command. (I put the osascript as first line when I pasted it in... This usually works for sending applescript commands)
So, any ideas on how to get it to run as a unix command??
IS THERE ANYWAY TO GET THIS TO WORK ON PANTHER MACHINES?? (they don't have the "modify keys..." button in the keyboards and mice pane of sys prefs). The bulk of our machines (over 300 are eMacs running panther).
*** script ******
tell application "System Preferences"
activate
set current pane to pane "com.apple.preference.keyboard"
end tell
tell application "System Events"
tell application process "System Preferences"
get properties
click button "Modifier Keys…" of tab group 1 of window "Keyboard & Mouse"
tell sheet 1 of window "Keyboard & Mouse"
click pop up button 1
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delay 3
click button "OK"
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Brush edges disappearing - Not a caps lock issue!

Hello -
I've upgraded to CS4 and Leopard (10.5.6) within the last month or so (computer is a dual G5). Recently (sometime in the last week) I've started having a problem where my brush edges disappear as soon as I start painting: I click to paint, and the cursor gets replaced with a standard black arrow for the duration of the stroke. When I let up on the mouse button, the arrow is still visible, but as soon as I move the mouse, the normal brush borders come back. My preferences are set correctly to display brush size and this has nothing to do with the caps lock (though I did try other preferences to see if it helped).
The actual painting functions normally, it's just impossible to do any precision work when you can't tell where the stroke is going. This is true of the regular paint brush tool as well as the clone stamp, the healing brush, the blur tool, the eraser, and presumably everything else as well. Hard-edged brushes and well as soft ones, round as well as irregular shapes. I never imported any brushes that might be corrupted - I didn't even add to the brush palette from the included supplemental brush libraries.
Trashing preferences didn't help. I reached the point where I uninstalled the whole application and reinstalled from scratch - no difference, even before I changed any preferences or options.
This is driving me nuts. I know I'm not going crazy, because I've got two Macs with CS4 less than 10 feet away from me (one with identical hardware to my own), and the brushes on them show up as perfectly normal. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks,
--Bonnie

Sorry for the delay in replying - I was out sick all last week and am only now getting caught up.
It turns out that it seems to have been the mouse driver. I have a Macally Ice Mouse I got with the computer - it's optical with a scroll wheel, but simple and not terribly programmable, so way back when I installed the driver and promptly forgot about it. Macally currently offers a driver for system 10.4-10.5, plus an older one for 10.1-10.3. Mine was older still. Upgrading to the 10.5 driver caused the mouse to go haywire, however, and I wasted a lot of time trying to get it to work. As a last resort before replacing the mouse, I tried the 10.1-10.3 driver, and surprisingly it allows the mouse to function properly without recreating the Photoshop issue. So I'll try to keep the obsolete driver in mind next time I have an inexplicable problem, but in the meantime I'm just happy to be functioning again.
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Cheers,
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How to detect Caps Lock without pressing any keys

I am trying to make the password login and would like add this feature to my website and don't know how to do it.
I wrote the code below to detect the Caps Lock but it couldn't detect the cap lock at start up.
if(flash.ui.Keyboard.capsLock){trace("CAP WAS ON")}else{trace("CAP WAS OFF");};
The result for this code is always return "false" unless I put this code in the eventlistener and have to press the keyboard

you must wait a moment for your stage to initialize. use a delay of 1ms or so to check for caplock.

Macbook Pro Caps Lock. how to relieve? i cant small caps letter use?

Macbook Pro Caps Lock. how to relieve? i cant small caps letter use?

I think I have a different problem, but it shares some similar features.
I just got my MBP back from repair for a dead trackpad/keyboard.
Things work mostly peachy now, but I noticed that the caps lock feature doesn't work. The caps lock light does come on on both my built-in and external keyboards, but neither produces CAPS when used.
Searching for this topic on the 'net is difficult nowadays due to a different issue on the new MBP swamping most older discussions.
In any case, the feature itself is gone-the hardware seems to be working properly. It even gives me the little caps lock warning if I press the caps lock key on the login screen. However, no capital letters are ever produced with them.
Strange.

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