Dell laptop. Poor design or me being dumb?

[nuyorican]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 29 December 2024 at 15:15

[phil4]

You know you can just hold down the shift key to type a cap.. you don't need to caps on, key, caps off.

And no, no special reason, sounds like the keyboard or LED behind that key is faulty. If you have warranty left on it, raise it with Dell support.

[S13_Alan]

phil4 said:

You know you can just hold down the shift key to type a cap.. you don't need to caps on, key, caps off.

I genuinely find it quite amazing the number of people who don't know that.

[John D.]

S13_Alan said:

phil4 said:

You know you can just hold down the shift key to type a cap.. you don't need to caps on, key, caps off.

I genuinely find it quite amazing the number of people who don't know that.

Indeed. Wtf?

[cobra kid]

My old boss used to do that with his one finger typing. Bang the caps lock, bang the letter, bang the caps lock.

[dxg]

S13_Alan said:

phil4 said:

You know you can just hold down the shift key to type a cap.. you don't need to caps on, key, caps off.

I genuinely find it quite amazing the number of people who don't know that.

How many people can remember that it used to be harder to press the shift key than the others because it had to lift (shift, I suppose...) the entire carriage up?

(Hence shift lock was physically quite a relief!)

[ZesPak]

S13_Alan said:

phil4 said:

You know you can just hold down the shift key to type a cap.. you don't need to caps on, key, caps off.

I genuinely find it quite amazing the number of people who don't know that.

Yep.
I know plenty of people who enable and disable the caps lock just to type one capital.

There's also settings in "Ease of Use" in windows that allows you to do notifications and sound when pressing a "toggle key" (caps, num or scroll lock).

One thing you could do if you really want an indicator is install something like traystatus.
The free version will then show your lock key status in the system tray (next to the clock) on your machine.