Sway: Inconsistent Caps Lock behavior

[kbeismann]

I started to have a strange problem with Caps Lock last winter on two Arch Linux machines at the same time (after a system update). Caps Lock functions as Shift now and is only activating as Caps Lock when using the modifiers Alt or Shift, even though no setxkbmap option is set. This problem only occurs in sway, not in the shell nor in weston.

Using setxkbmap -query gives:

rules:      evdev
model:      pc105
layout:     us

I identified a solution this week, but I cannot figure out why it works and why it only works under specific conditions. Using setxkbmap -option caps:none or setxkbmap -option caps:shiftlock after starting sway enables the normal Caps Lock behavior with:

rules:      evdev
model:      pc105
layout:     us
options:    caps:none

I tried to implement this solution by using a script to start sway with

#!/bin/bash
export XKB_DEFAULT_OPTIONS=caps:none;
sway -d 2> ~/.sway.log;

This completely deactivates the Caps Lock key though, as it should. Did anyone else experience/solve this issue?

[kaberc]

I have simular issue

export XKB_DEFAULT_LAYOUT=us,ru
export XKB_DEFAULT_VARIANT=,winkeys
export XKB_DEFAULT_OPTIONS=grp:caps_toggle

After that caps doesn't toggle layouts. It toggles only after I press shift or alt keys. The same issue with rctrl_toggle and shifts_toggle. Maybe it's a different issue, I'll post it then.

[Hummer12007]

Same for me: caps lock has any effect only after another modifier key is pressed.

[Zer0-One]

Same issue ^

zero-one@electron ~ $ setxkbmap -verbose -query
Trying to build keymap using the following components:
keycodes:   evdev+aliases(qwerty)
types:      complete
compat:     complete
symbols:    pc+us+inet(evdev)
geometry:   pc(pc105)
rules:      evdev
model:      pc105
layout:     us

[ddevault]

"Me too" ad nauseam isn't helpful. "Here's a patch" is helpful.

[sameer]

Looks like KDE had a similar issue and fixed it: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377155

I've been investigating for a bit but I can't tell if it's the same.

[ddevault]

I'm closing issues that are resolved by the yet-unreleased sway 1.0.