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Jeff Fischer
Asked: 2013-02-13 12:52:15 +0800 CST

Only can type in caps. It acts like the shift key is stuck

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Its not my keyboard. I have tried multiple keyboards.

Everything I type is in CAPS.

When I try and click on a line it acts like the Shift key is held down and selects stuff.

Please Help

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6 Answers

  1. I still find this happening occasionally. To avoid a DenverCoder9 situation: I find that if I lock the screen and unlock it, it fixes this.

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  2. Check your Universal Access settings. You can find it by going to the Ubuntu Dash (Click the Ubuntu icon at the top left, or press the Super/"Windows" key>), and typing in the word sticky. Make sure Sticky keys setting is turned off.

    If you press and hold the Shift key for about 5 seconds it should turn the Shift sticky on/off.

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  3. Double tap the Shift key to turn off all caps.

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  4. This happened to me in Ubuntu 18.04. If you press both Shift and caps lock the keyboard reverts to its normal behavior. Pressing them both again will change to uppercase and not even tapping caps lock works to get lower case.

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  5. In Ubuntu 22.04, the default activation/deactivation of Caps Lock is Alt+Caps Lock. That is, if you have occasionally pressed Alt+CapsLock, you need to press Alt+CapsLock again to disable it. No need to wait for N seconds, the combination just works instantly, once you release the keys.

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  6. Temporary solution If you are getting lowercase input on shift then try this..

    For fedora 34 enable stick keys in the settings and double click shift button to input lowercase letters.

    Hopefully work for all linux!!

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