caps lock key does not work well

Are there supposed to be pictures in the boxes?

Would be easy if there were.

You can'ty help wondering what sort of nerd at Apple decided that something which has worked fine for 25 years suddenly needs changing?!

What sort of mind thinks it would be a good idea to change the operation of the Caps Lock key to suit people who don't use the Caps Lock key rather than for people who do use the Caps Lock key?!

It's a funny old world!

Yeah when I originally blogged this solution last year those were the current versions, there may well be newer releases available now. I'm guessing the later versions can only be more compatible with later operating systems so no harm in updating. I did post this answer here with a link to my blog but the moderators decided that I was self-promoting so took it down. It was only when I started getting notifications through again that I thought i'd try copying and pasting the complete blog entry here.

Glad it helped - it's still working for me 8 months later so it certainly does hold.

Mart

Yeah I think if you click the images they popup, but don't show for some reason. I guess because I copied the whole lot from my original blog entry. I was quite surprised it let me paste them in at all to be honest! If not i'm sure you can find my UK blogspot site with the pictures in (not self-promoting, just trying to be helpful here!)

Hey, thanks for supplying a more permanent solution. I personally don't like keyboard hack software (too many bugs encountered while making my old computers more Colemak-friendly), but I'm glad that there exists a way that most people will consider to be acceptable.

I've begun to program and work in Terminal/Emacs much more often nowadays, so I've switched my Control and Caps Lock keys anyway, making this a non-issue. For anyone who uses the Control key more than the Caps Lock key, I highly recommend the switch.

Awesome, Basham. I have been facing this issue for several years and it finally bugged me enough to look it up. Thank you for your perfect solution!

Please post your thoughts on this to http://www.apple.com/feedback/ and hopefully it might shake Apple out of its appalling complacenecy and force them to provide some way to turn this horrible caps lock key delay OFF!

This worked for me too. I did not have to estart the computer or exit out of sys pref in order for it to work either. It is funny that this seems to be a software bug, as i have talked to several Apple reps and they have wanted me to ake an appointment at my nearest Apple stroe wich is over an hour away and bring it in. I noticed this issue right off the bat, but chocked it up to being new to the platform. I am just happy i dont have to bring in my MacBook for repair because i am in school and cant go without it. Thanks for the help!!!!

that worked for me, at least until now.

i'll let you know if the strange behavior gets back. thanks!

I have been angry about this too.

And I've been using mac keyboard before actually using a mac and I can say I got this problem on my windows computer too, using apple keyboard.

In fact, I got used to press caps lock several times while keep an eye on it to see if the lights are on.

Some time ago I had to rehabilitate my computer to use netBanking because I typed 3 times wrong password (lack of caps), so it's a big hassle.

I'm glad I found the solution here, and, until now its working.

PS: I had this problem either on my macair built in keyboard, as well in the external USB apple keyboard. As I stated im my response, I also had this problem in my Windows PC, with apple keyboard, so it's weird that tweaking System Preferences can solve the problem. Later I'll try using it on the PC to see if the problem remains.

Yes! This terrible feature! I HATE IT!!! I think Apple did this purposely: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1192

I always forgot there does not really exist a caps lock on mac and tried to press it. So 2 seconds after I saw a lot of typos and then spent long time carefully deleting them, and, I fogot what I was doing! I hope Apple allow us turn off this terrible feature, even by a terminal command.

My caps lock key does not work properly, but only on a few letters, and only when trying to use my credit card online. I understand how bizzarre that sounds but the letters WXS wxs, work fine everywhere else, but on Amazon they cannot be made in to caps. On my credit card my name JAMES, is written in all caps. They won't except payment using the spelling James, since I can't cap the S. Does anyone know whats going? The letters not working from top to bottom WSX make it seem as if I damaged the keyboard, but since I can use caps everywhere else, could it be a virus trying to infiltrate my account? This is very frustrating. Any help greatly appreciated

System Preferences > Accessibility > Click on the keyboard on the left side If not already clicked on. Then on the 2nd one click on options Acceptance delay, go all the way long..

It worked for me..👿