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Re: Mac OS X: Disable the Caps Lock Key

David Kirk - Founder/Editor — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 10:11:43 -0000

Broke my ring-finger playing football in high school. I would be trying to code and suddenly notice a long string of L's and semi-colons. btw, those splints stink after a few days, literally.

Re: Mac OS X: Disable the Caps Lock Key

meridianmarc — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 03:43:43 -0000

f*ck yea ... thanks for this dude. just broke my pinky finger, which is now splinted (and has a strong affinity for capital letters). the other nine fingers FTW

Re: Mac OS X: Disable the Caps Lock Key

Ordell Robbie — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 14:30:46 -0000

Wow, that was easy. Thanks!

Re: Mac OS X: Disable the Caps Lock Key

Wouter — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:34:00 -0000

Excellent! Thanks.

Re: Mac OS X: Disable the Caps Lock Key

W Mellon — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:08:59 -0000

Caps Lock is a relic of PowerPoint zombies. A totally unnecessary function, in the rare cases somebody might need it, some obscure key-combination could do the job. Too bad is hogs so much keyboard real estate.

Re: Mac OS X: Disable the Caps Lock Key

sieler — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:50:02 -0000

Note: you may have a pull-down list of keyboards ... be sure you're modifying
the keyboard you think you're modifying :)

(BTW, works fine for me with Snow Leopard after I selected the correct
keyboard.)

The reason it's important to check the keyboard is that the Mac OS remembers
other keyboards you've attached, and doesn't seem to default to the one that
*is* attached (when you've got only one currently attached).

Re: Mac OS X: Disable the Caps Lock Key

Iso Grifo — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:43:20 -0000

Disabling the caps lock seems a bit extreme to me. Check out CapSee... it puts a notification bezel on the screen (just like the volume and brightness bezels) letting you know when you bump the caps lock key. It's free, and it's currently Apple's featured download! www.apple.com/downloads/mac...

Re: Mac OS X: Disable the Caps Lock Key

Tim Lossen — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:07:10 -0000

cool! caps lock was driving me crazy ...

Re: Mac OS X: Disable the Caps Lock Key

robaldred — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:32:04 -0000

No love for disabling the caps lock in Snow Leopard with full USB keyboard, it does work with the newer compact USB keyboard, strange.

Re: Mac OS X: Disable the Caps Lock Key

Brad — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:35:11 -0000

I agree. Although mine is strange cause I had caps-lock disabled in 10.5.8. After the upgrade, it's till disabled, but I can't turn it back on for the external keyboard (Aluminum). The caps-lock setting in that syspref pane works fine for the Macbook Pro 15" unibody keyboard.

Re: Mac OS X: Disable the Caps Lock Key

troyh — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:23:45 -0000

They broke this is Snow Leopard for USB keyboards. That sysprefs pane does absolutely nothing in Snow Leopard.

Re: Mac OS X: Disable the Caps Lock Key

Ted Johnson — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:52:27 -0000

tHANK yOU SO mUCH!!!