By far the most frustrating key on the keyboard has to be CAPS LOCK. Does any one ever use this key!? After many years of accidentally pressing it, I finally stumbled upon the way to disable it.
Go to the Keyboard & Mouse Preferences
Select Modifier Keys
And change Caps Lock Key to No Action
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NOTE: On my Powerbook the Caps Lock Light still turns on and off when I press the button. On my Powermac and Macally keyboard the light stays off.
This works in Mac OS X 10.4, also known as Tiger, I don’t think it works on earlier versions. You may want to try: uControl [gnufoo.org]
Next Week: What the hell is Scroll Lock and Pause good for
Comments 15
Aaah! Bliss!! Caps Lock has been the bane of my life for years! Nothing worse than typing (usually a great idea) and then having to redo it all in lower case! Thank you thank you thank you
Posted 26 Jun 2007 at 11:05 pm ¶That was way to easy. Thank you sooo much. I always hit that stupid key by mistake.
Posted 31 Oct 2007 at 7:09 pm ¶A great tip — I recently switched to Mac laptop for work and the caps lock key is one of the worst designed features of the keyboard, which otherwise I really like.
Posted 11 Jan 2008 at 10:45 am ¶Bless you!!!!
Posted 14 Feb 2008 at 7:50 pm ¶Bless you, Marcus!!
Posted 31 Mar 2008 at 11:52 am ¶THANKS SO MUCH.
Posted 14 Sep 2008 at 8:46 am ¶Thanks so much.
I’ve been looking for this for quite some time and you made my day.
I hope the Caps Lock key will soon be removed from our keyboards. There would be better use for the space it occupies.
Posted 03 Nov 2008 at 6:05 am ¶Oh I thank you so much for this!
Posted 05 Dec 2008 at 11:52 pm ¶Eternal gratitude!
Posted 15 Jan 2009 at 1:44 pm ¶I agree with the frustration about the CAP lock key. Disabling it is better than leaving it on, but I would prefer the option of having it deactivated by pressing the shift key as it was in typewriters and is still an option on Windows computers. It is sometimes useful, but I don’t like having to look somewhere to know if it is activated or deactivated.
Posted 13 Feb 2009 at 8:58 pm ¶Thanks for the tip! A little guiding light helping to navigate a world of clumsy engineering!
Posted 17 Mar 2009 at 9:28 am ¶Re: Disable caps lock
Posted 20 Apr 2009 at 8:17 am ¶Brilliant!!!
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
i heart you….. and whoever it was that sent me here to find you.
Posted 07 May 2009 at 10:45 am ¶Beautiful! Exactly what I was looking for! Thank you for that!!!
Posted 13 May 2009 at 2:39 am ¶ditto to all of the blessings… love my keyboard, hate the caps lock. thank you!!
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