remapping caps lock

[Luigi Semenzato]

"showkey"  shows that the chromium os search key (where caps lock used to be) sends code 125, Left Meta (strange choice), instead of the caps lock key code (58).  Does anybody know where we set that?

Thanks!

[Emmanuel Saint-loubert]

Yes it is in the accelerators table: chrome/src/ash/accelerators/accelerator_table.cc

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Luigi Semenzato <seme...@chromium.org> wrote:

"showkey"  shows that the chromium os search key (where caps lock used to be) sends code 125, Left Meta (strange choice), instead of the caps lock key code (58).  Does anybody know where we set that?

Thanks!

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[Luigi Semenzato]

Thanks.  I am slightly suspecting that that mapping is meant to be local to Chrome.  The remapping I see is global, and affects every program (among which the factory keyboard test, which is currently failing).

[Mark Hayter]

This is part of the chrome keyboard spec. The search key is mapped to the keycode that (officially) is called the "Left GUI key", or OSpecifically "left Windows key" or "left Apple key" or "Sun Left Meta". So if you use an external keyboard with a chrome device the Caps Lock key still does Caps Lock and the left Windows key does Search. (Unless of course you have mapped them to Ctrl...)

Mark

[Micah Catlin]

Also, the new factory tests can use the Chrome browser to present their UI, so it's reasonable to find the same code being effective there.