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I am using Ubuntu 14.10 on a laptop, and after I close the lid (meaning, logging out), when I open the lead again the Caps Lock mode is reversed: when it's supposed to be on it's off and when it's supposed to be off it's on. What do I do about it? It only happens after I open the lid of the laptop, but I'm pretty sure it has to do with the settings.

Hagaymosko
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The Bug is closed but I see this issue still happening even on the latest distro.

It's fixable without a reboot.

You can toggle the keyboard leds directly from within /sys/class/leds/ by setting a value of 1 or 0 to enable disable a led for a specific device.

or simply:

Turn on caps lock light for all connected keyboards

echo 1 | sudo tee `ls /sys/class/leds/*capslock/brightness`

Turn off caps lock for all connected keyboards

echo 0 | sudo tee `ls /sys/class/leds/*capslock/brightness`
tomodachi
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On the icon that says "En", which has the language and Character map,

Select "Text Entry Settings" and see what options are set up for your computer to solve this issue.

Mine had "Switch to Next source using" and "Switch to previous source using"; this for the input setting... I pressed Shift+fn+Space

That fixed it for me.

You'reAGitForNotUsingGit
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Wallace Kingston
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Though I found this bug on Fedora, the symptoms were the same as described here. As a workaround I rebooted my laptop and this resolved the issue. Also there is a relevant Ubuntu bug.

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