Public bug reported:
I have remapped the keyboard's "Caps Lock" button as an extra "Escape"
button, moving the rare use case of actually needing "Caps Lock" to
"Shift + Caps Lock". This means that pressing "Caps Lock" anywhere in
the OS performs whatever "Escape" was supposed to do (apart from VSCode,
which seems to handle keys separately and differently... but that's
their problem, not yours). This also translates to the "Caps Lock" key
on both the laptop's and the external keyboard lighting up properly when
activated.
However, at some point I think I locked the computer with "Caps Lock"
turned on, i.e. the indicator was alight on the keyboard. The lockscreen
interpreted this, correctly, as "Caps lock = ON". To turn it off, I
pressed "Shift + Caps Lock". Caps turns off, and I can login with my
password. Inside the DE, I notice now that the Caps state has _not_
shifted, and as such is kept at "Caps lock = ON". I yet again press
"Shift + Caps lock", which, again correctly, turns Caps lock off. I note
that the keyboard(s) now have their Caps Lock indicator light on, even
though my current caps state is "OFF". It seems like there are two
different systems keeping track of the Caps Lock state, and these two
can get out of sync.
System info:
```
❯ lsb_release -rd
No LSB modules are available.
Description: Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
Release: 24.04
```
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Custom caps lock action inconsistent on login screen
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