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Title:
  audio feedback doesn't always use two tones

Status in GNOME Control Center:
  New
Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

  First of all, I'm using Ubuntu Jaunty, with gnome-control-center
  1:2.26.0-0ubuntu3.

  Second, I turned on the "Audio feedback" feature in "Keyboard
  preferences", namely the "Beep when a toggle key is pressed". This
  produces two different tones of "beeps", one when the toggle key ends
  up in the "on" state, another (lower pitched) when the toggle key ends
  up in the "off" state.

  The problem is that the CapsLock key uses the same, high pitched beep
  for both states, so if you press it by accident you have to look for
  the keyboard leds to check if the key is on or off. If you press
  another toggle key (NumLock, for example), it produces the two
  different tones AND makes the CapsLock key work again as usual with
  two beep tones and not one.

  Looks like the CapsLock key doesn't remember it's state in the audio
  feedback code until another unrelated toggle key is used :??

  What I expected to happen? Hearing a different pitched beep each time
  I press CapsLock, the high pitched one when the key ends up "on", the
  low pitched one when the kay ends up "off".

  What happened instead? The high pitched beep is always heard no matter
  toggle state, unless you use another toggle (I've tested with
  NumLock). From then on, CapsLock also uses two tones.

  To reproduce, from a fresh boot (CapsLock off, NumLock off):

  - Press CapsLock: you hear the high pitch beep, indicating "on" state.
  - Press CapsLock: you hear the high pitch beep again, indicating "on", but the key is now in the "off" position.
  - Press CapsLock: you hear the high pitch beep again, this time the key is in the "on" state.

  This can be repeated ad nauseam and you always get the high pitch
  beep.

  - Press NumLock: you hear the high pitch beep, the key goes to the "on" state.
  - Press NumLock: you hear the LOW pitch beep, the key goes to the "off" state, behaving correctly.

  From now on, the CapsLock uses two tones and not one like before!

  Raúl

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