Razer laptop Caps-lock key of the death

[Jeandet Alexis]

Hi all,

I'm an happy Fedora user, I changed my laptop last year for a Razer
sealth blade. 
Fedora/Linux works well except for the known caps-lock key which just
crash the whole system when pressed:
https://github.com/rolandguelle/razer-blade-stealth-linux#caps-lock-
crash
I tried to add XKBOPTIONS="ctrl:nocaps" in /etc/default/keyboard.

The thing is that this solution doesn't seems to work on Fedora, not
easy to find what to search on Google, it looks like
/etc/default/keyboard isn't right config file.
I'm using Gnome with Wayland. Any idea?

This issue/feature is quite fun to show to friends(looks like an auto-
destruct key) but quite annoying when you press caps-lock by mistake
:).
Yes getting it solved by Razer would be the best! But last time I asked
them something, I got:
"
Hi Alexis,

Thank you for contacting Razer Support.

At this time, Razer does not officially support Linux. I am sorry for
the inconvenience this might cause you.

Have a nice Monday!
"

Best regards,
Alexis.

[stan]

On Sun, 04 Mar 2018 16:26:10 +0100
Jeandet Alexis <alexis.jeandet(a)member.fsf.org&gt; wrote:

>  I tried to add XKBOPTIONS="ctrl:nocaps" in
> /etc/default/keyboard. 
This won't work for wayland.  You would have to run X.
 
>  I'm using Gnome with Wayland. Any idea? 
Stop using wayland.  This is an area of wayland that hasn't been
brought up to the same standard as X.  I use a custom keymap, and there
is no way to tell wayland that (last I checked).  It will probably
happen at some point, but this is a pretty obscure use case, and they
have bigger fish to fry right now.

[jeandet]

Le dimanche 04 mars 2018 à 11:40 -0700, stan a écrit :
>  On Sun, 04 Mar 2018 16:26:10 +0100
>  Jeandet Alexis <alexis.jeandet(a)member.fsf.org&gt; wrote:
>  
>  > I tried to add XKBOPTIONS="ctrl:nocaps" in /etc/default/keyboard.
>  
>  This won't work for wayland.  You would have to run X. 
Ok, weird on the github
page it was like this is for wayland while 
Section "InputClass"
    Identifier      "Disable built-in keyboard"
    MatchProduct    "AT Raw Set 2 keyboard"
#   MatchProduct    "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
    Option          "Ignore"    "true"
EndSection
is for X11.
>   
>  > I'm using Gnome with Wayland. Any idea?
>  
>  Stop using wayland.  This is an area of wayland that hasn't been
>  brought up to the same standard as X.  I use a custom keymap, and
>  there
>  is no way to tell wayland that (last I checked).  It will probably
>  happen at some point, but this is a pretty obscure use case, and they
>  have bigger fish to fry right now.
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[Stephen Morris]

On 5/3/18 5:40 am, stan wrote:
>  On Sun, 04 Mar 2018 16:26:10 +0100
>  Jeandet Alexis <alexis.jeandet(a)member.fsf.org&gt; wrote:
>
> > I tried to add XKBOPTIONS="ctrl:nocaps" in /etc/default/keyboard.
>  This won't work for wayland.  You would have to run X.
>    
> > I'm using Gnome with Wayland. Any idea?
>  Stop using wayland.  This is an area of wayland that hasn't been
>  brought up to the same standard as X.  I use a custom keymap, and there
>  is no way to tell wayland that (last I checked).  It will probably
>  happen at some point, but this is a pretty obscure use case, and they
>  have bigger fish to fry right now. 
Just some info. I was given the following in another thread by Ed 
Greshko. If you are using gdm as your display manager it should work for 
you.


Edit the file /etc/gdm/custom.conf accordingly

[daemon]
# Uncoment the line below to force the login screen to use Xorg
#WaylandEnable=false

Uncommenting WaylandEnable = false stops gdm being started under Wayland (gnome-shell has
a huge lag issue under Wayland) and it also seems to switch Gnome back to being started
under Xorg as well.

regards,
Steve

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Razer laptop Caps-lock key of the death [Solved]

[jeandet]

Hello,
By the way, this is finally fixed in 4.16 kernel, available in fedora
28 :). So I can use the Caps-Lock key.
Best regards,Alexis.Le dimanche 04 mars 2018 à 16:26 +0100, Jeandet
Alexis a écrit :
>  Hi all,
>  
>  I'm an happy Fedora user, I changed my laptop last year for a Razer
>  sealth blade. 
>  Fedora/Linux works well except for the known caps-lock key which just
>  crash the whole system when pressed:
>  https://github.com/rolandguelle/razer-blade-stealth-linux#caps-lock-c
>  rash
>  I tried to add XKBOPTIONS="ctrl:nocaps" in /etc/default/keyboard.
>  
>  The thing is that this solution doesn't seems to work on Fedora, not
>  easy to find what to search on Google, it looks like
>  /etc/default/keyboard isn't right config file.
>  I'm using Gnome with Wayland. Any idea?
>  
>  This issue/feature is quite fun to show to friends(looks like an
>  auto-destruct key) but quite annoying when you press caps-lock by
>  mistake :).
>  Yes getting it solved by Razer would be the best! But last time I
>  asked them something, I got:
>  "
>  Hi Alexis,
>  
>  Thank you for contacting Razer Support.
>  
>  At this time, Razer does not officially support Linux. I am sorry for
>  the inconvenience this might cause you.
>  
>  Have a nice Monday!
>  "
>  
>  Best regards,
>  Alexis.
>  _______________________________________________
>  users mailing list -- users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>  To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org