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  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  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  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.
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> users mailing list -- [e-mail]
> To unsubscribe send an email to [e-mail]