FS#69292 - [archiso] CapsLock behaves strange while booting from iso

Attached to Project: Release Engineering
Opened by Samuel (qux42) - Monday, 11 January 2021, 18:23 GMT
Last edited by David Runge (dvzrv) - Friday, 18 February 2022, 18:47 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category ArchISO
Status Closed
Assigned To David Runge (dvzrv)
Architecture x86_64
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Details:

When booting from the newest ISO (2021.01.01) the CapsLock doesn't work. Only when pressed in combination with either shift, ctrl or alt, the expected behavior occurs.
Switching keyboard-layout (with loadkeys or localectl) (us, de-latin1, etc.) doesn't change anything. I tried it on 2 different laptops - both show same behavior. Booting a centos from usb, the capslock works like intended.

For me this is quite important, because the keybord layout I'm using is heavily dependent on capsLock as it is used as a modifier.
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Closed by  David Runge (dvzrv)
Friday, 18 February 2022, 18:47 GMT
Reason for closing:  No response
Comment by Samuel (qux42) - Monday, 11 January 2021, 18:32 GMT
Tested older versions. Until (including) 2020.10.01 it still works as intended. From 2020.11.01 onwards it behaves strange.
Comment by David Runge (dvzrv) - Friday, 09 July 2021, 10:11 GMT
@qux42: Thanks for the report and sorry for the long time for a reply.

Are you booting using UEFI or legacy BIOS?
Is this still an issue with recent ISOs?
If yes, would you have time to debug this and figure out which commit between v48 and v49 of archiso [1] broke this for you? I don't have this type of setup and it is hard for me to test this.

Nothing super obvious in the commits between those two tags really jumps at me... sorry. However, we added accessibility support (this only affects one of the bootloader entries though) and shuffled some things around internally.

[1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archiso

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