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[Glyph Lefkowitz <glyph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

It is a well documented fact that newer mac keyboards induce a slight
delay when pressing capslock, to reduce accidental keypresses.  However,
on OS X, this delay is removed when remapping to another key such as
Control.  However, this does not appear to be the case in Ubuntu
(specifically, Lucid Lynx).  So it must be possible to disable the delay
in software.

As noted here: <http://colemak.com/Mac>, apparently PCKeyboardHack, an
OS X program for which source is available
(<http://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/extra.html>) can disable this
delay; perhaps that would be helpful.

** Affects: mactel-support
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Caps Lock key has slight delay, even when remapped to "Control" or similar (MacBookPro 5,3, but probably applies to others)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/585244
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Status in Mactel Support: New

Bug description:
It is a well documented fact that newer mac keyboards induce a slight delay when pressing capslock, to reduce accidental keypresses.  However, on OS X, this delay is removed when remapping to another key such as Control.  However, this does not appear to be the case in Ubuntu (specifically, Lucid Lynx).  So it must be possible to disable the delay in software.

As noted here: <http://colemak.com/Mac>, apparently PCKeyboardHack, an OS X program for which source is available (<http://pqrs.org/macosx/keyremap4macbook/extra.html>) can disable this delay; perhaps that would be helpful.