• Re: MIT Sparc X server and keyboard indicators

    From KP KP@21:1/5 to Guy Harris on Mon Aug 8 11:39:58 2022
    On Thursday, April 25, 1991 at 11:22:18 AM UTC-7, Guy Harris wrote:
    For example, pressing the CAPS LOCK key does not cause the
    appropriate indicator light to be turned on.

    Yeah, this is a true bummer. Just Another bug in X11R4, oh well.
    Bug? It'd have been a little difficult to "fix" that "bug", given that
    when X11R4 came out, SunOS 4.1 wasn't out yet, which means that the
    keyboard driver (except possibly on the 386i) didn't support the "ioctl"
    call to turn the LEDs on and off.
    I complained about the same thing (and other things as well) and was given >the good piece of advice to use the openwindows server instead of X.
    I suspect the OW server doesn't run the indicator lights when run under
    SunOS 4.0[.x]; if it does, I'll be *extremely* surprised (unless OW
    comes with a modified version of the keyboard driver).
    cool

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