How To: Fix the Caps Lock, Shift, Control problem under Ubuntu

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Nov 26th, 2008

Many Ubuntu users have reported frequent problems within Ubuntu with the Caps Lock, Shift or the Control keys. The specified keys stop working  randomly and an Ubuntu restart is required to re-enable them. While this problem isn’t a major one within Ubuntu, it’s not currently fixed or planned by the developers.

There is however a fix, which resets the keyboard map and prevents us from rebooting the machines, the “setxkbmap” command. Now let’s hope that in the near future, this small bug will be fixed, it’s annoying for many.

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  • http://www.remex.co.za Theo Fondse

    Thank you very much for sharing this – it works!

  • Pissed

    This isn’t a ‘how to fix’ its just a reporting of the problem and a total waste of time

    • vexx

      have you tried the setxkbmap command?

      • Pissed

        yes
        It just doesn’t work :(

  • Yumeyao

    WFM, thanks a lot!

  • Bob

    Thank you!