Re: Mac Carbon: Control on Caps Lock becomes sticky problem

[Ken Raeburn]

My guess is that it's a bug in the Apple code.  I've seen the problem  
on my PowerBook G4, but not on my desktop system at work.  But since  
having Control in the below-bottom-row position under Emacs  
exacerbates my RSI problems, I'm dealing with losing text now and  
then... :-(

The uControl web page (http://gnufoo.org/ucontrol/ucontrol.html)  
indicates that the author of that program (which you had to use under  
earlier OS X releases to swap these keys) used to believe it was a  
hardware problem, but since found out about special events that get  
delivered for the control key.

uControl is being replaced by fKeys (http://www.kodachi.com/fKeys/),  
a rewrite specifically for Tiger.  If you feel like trying it out,  
let me (us?) know if the "control lock" problem is fixed there; if  
you don't, maybe I'll get around to trying it eventually....

Ken