Just bought a Lenovo Thinkpad Edge. Now I discovered it has no caps lock
led. Apparently if I had left Windows 7 on it an indicator would have
appeared on the taskbar or desktop. Since the first thing I did was
remove it is there any applet to do the same thing on Maverick?

Regards, Jim

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On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 17:24 -0600, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> Just bought a Lenovo Thinkpad Edge. Now I discovered it has no caps
> lock
> led. Apparently if I had left Windows 7 on it an indicator would
> have
> appeared on the taskbar or desktop. Since the first thing I did was
> remove it is there any applet to do the same thing on Maverick?
>
> Regards, Jim
Right click in the panel, click 'Add to panel' click 'Lock Keys', click
'Add'.

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Mark Widdicombe wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 17:24 -0600, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>> Just bought a Lenovo Thinkpad Edge. Now I discovered it has no caps
>> lock
>> led. Apparently if I had left Windows 7 on it an indicator would
>> have
>> appeared on the taskbar or desktop. Since the first thing I did was
>> remove it is there any applet to do the same thing on Maverick?
>>
>> Regards, Jim
> Right click in the panel, click 'Add to panel' click 'Lock Keys', click
> 'Add'.
>
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>

Mark,

Thanks, just what I needed. Just a note for anyone else that needs
this. It was not available by default on my install of Maverick. I had
to find and install it with Sanaptic and then restart the computer to
get it to show in the menu of items that can be added to a panel.

Regards, Jim

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On 12/03/2010 09:15 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
...
>
> Thanks, just what I needed. Just a note for anyone else that needs
> this. It was not available by default on my install of Maverick. I had
> to find and install it with Sanaptic and then restart the computer to
> get it to show in the menu of items that can be added to a panel.
...

You might also want to try:

$ sudo apt-get install lock-keys-applet

That one will show your numlock, caps, and scroll key status in your
panel. Makes it handy if you don't have a numlock led etc., and you can
configure to show only the keys you wish to see if you don't wish to see
all three.

Note: it's in the Universe repository:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/maverick/lock-keys-applet
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lock-keys-applet/+bugs


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NoOp wrote:
> On 12/03/2010 09:15 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> ...
>>
>> Thanks, just what I needed. Just a note for anyone else that needs
>> this. It was not available by default on my install of Maverick. I had
>> to find and install it with Sanaptic and then restart the computer to
>> get it to show in the menu of items that can be added to a panel.
> ...
>
> You might also want to try:
>
> $ sudo apt-get install lock-keys-applet
>
> That one will show your numlock, caps, and scroll key status in your
> panel. Makes it handy if you don't have a numlock led etc., and you can
> configure to show only the keys you wish to see if you don't wish to see
> all three.
>
> Note: it's in the Universe repository:
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/maverick/lock-keys-applet [1]
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lock-keys-applet/+bugs
>
>

[1] This is the one that was installed using Sanaptic also or would have
apt-get put it on the panel by itself? At first it showed all 3 "lock"
keys, but I only have a caps lock. I had to reboot for another reason
and when I restarted it reconfigured itself and only showed the caps
lock key. Cool.

Regards, Jim


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On 12/03/2010 12:39 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
...
>> Note: it's in the Universe repository:
>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/maverick/lock-keys-applet [1]
>> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lock-keys-applet/+bugs
>>
>>
>
> [1] This is the one that was installed using Sanaptic also or would have
> apt-get put it on the panel by itself?

That's fine. Installing via Synaptic accomplishes the same thing.

> At first it showed all 3 "lock"
> keys, but I only have a caps lock. I had to reboot for another reason
> and when I restarted it reconfigured itself and only showed the caps
> lock key. Cool.

Next time:

$ killall gnome-panel

should do the trick. You can right-click on the icon & select
'Preferences' to turn on/off which lock key you want it to show.


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