Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-control-center
First of all, I'm using Ubuntu Jaunty, with gnome-control-center
1:2.26.0-0ubuntu3.
Second, I turned on the "Audio feedback" feature in "Keyboard
preferences", namely the "Beep when a toggle key is pressed". This
produces two different tones of "beeps", one when the toggle key ends up
in the "on" state, another (lower pitched) when the toggle key ends up
in the "off" state.
The problem is that the CapsLock key uses the same, high pitched beep
for both states, so if you press it by accident you have to look for the
keyboard leds to check if the key is on or off. If you press another
toggle key (NumLock, for example), it produces the two different tones
AND makes the CapsLock key work again as usual with two beep tones and
not one.
Looks like the CapsLock key doesn't remember it's state in the audio
feedback code until another unrelated toggle key is used :??
What I expected to happen? Hearing a different pitched beep each time I
press CapsLock, the high pitched one when the key ends up "on", the low
pitched one when the kay ends up "off".
What happened instead? The high pitched beep is always heard no matter
toggle state, unless you use another toggle (I've tested with NumLock).
>From then on, CapsLock also uses two tones.
To reproduce, from a fresh boot (CapsLock off, NumLock off):
- Press CapsLock: you hear the high pitch beep, indicating "on" state.
- Press CapsLock: you hear the high pitch beep again, indicating "on", but the
key is now in the "off" position.
- Press CapsLock: you hear the high pitch beep again, this time the key is in
the "on" state.
This can be repeated ad nauseam and you always get the high pitch beep.
- Press NumLock: you hear the high pitch beep, the key goes to the "on" state.
- Press NumLock: you hear the LOW pitch beep, the key goes to the "off" state,
behaving correctly.
>From now on, the CapsLock uses two tones and not one like before!
Raúl
** Affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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audio feedback doesn't always use two tones
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/394592
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