Keyboard LED applet

[Rejy M Cyriac]

On 04/19/2013 11:14 AM, g wrote:
> 
> On 04/19/2013 12:04 AM, Ian Pilcher wrote:
>> Just when you think that laptop manufacturers couldn't go any farther
>> off the rails, Lenovo has apparently decided that physical keyboard
>> status LEDs are just too darn expensive.
> 
> if you consider the oem cost for an led and associated circuit cost $0.10
> and they build runs of 10,000 of said laptop, they would save $1,000 per
> run.
> 
> could be they figured that i one is typing and letters change to upper
> case,
> one should realize that <caps lock> was pressed instead of <tab>. ;-)
> 
>> Does anyone know of a keyboard LED applet/widget that can be used with
>> KDE?  (An actual Plasma widget is obviously preferred, but I'll take
>> anything that can run in the system tray.)

You could try out the 'keyboard indicator' available with 'cairo-dock'

> 
> if you do not notice change in typing, would you see it in system tray?
> ;;-)
> 
> on serious side, if you know any c/c++ or basic [yuck], or al [yea], or
> someone who does, you/they can capture key being pressed and 'ring a bell'
> to notify of such.
> 
> as for an applet/widget, nay.
> 


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Regards,

Rejy M Cyriac (rmc)