Take it a step further. Remap your capslock button to another key and never have this problem again.
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I use karabiner to make the caps lock another meta key like shift or Command. Pushing it makes the ijkl keys into up left down right. Plus more.
I remap mine to Command. Caps Lock is one of the least useful keys on a keyboard to be honest.
How often are you all using caps lock?
I mean I knew some people that used it in place of the shift key but.. generally my usage is really low.
How often are you all using caps lock?
I mean I knew some people that used it in place of the shift key but.. generally my usage is really low.
I’m a programmer and I mapped mine to ctrl years ago. never looked back.
Lots of references to tools like Karabiner and Keyboard Maestro, but by default macOS lets you rebind it to a few things. If you go to Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Modifier Keys, you can set caps lock to act as control, option, command, globe, or escape (which is the most useful one IMO). Best thing is that this setting is also per keyboard -- if you have a laptop that you regularly dock with an external keyboard, you don't have to have the Caps Lock key on that keyboard mapped the same as on the internal keyboard.
I’m a programmer and I mapped mine to ctrl years ago. never looked back.
Lots of references to tools like Karabiner and Keyboard Maestro, but by default macOS lets you rebind it to a few things. If you go to Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Modifier Keys, you can set caps lock to act as control, option, command, globe, or escape (which is the most useful one IMO). Best thing is that this setting is also per keyboard -- if you have a laptop that you regularly dock with an external keyboard, you don't have to have the Caps Lock key on that keyboard mapped the same as on the internal keyboard.
right lmao. i have a touchbar macbook so i’ve “sacrificed” my caps lock to regain a physical escape key.
Yes it is like that by default. I've found it annoying that sometimes I press Caps Lock and it doesnt turn on, so I've found an app called CapsLockNoDelay which prevents this from happening. So every time I press Caps Lock soft or hard, it works.
I thought it was a hardware thing. Interesting
I thought it was a hardware thing. Interesting
Fun fact, caps lock lights on every keyboards is an OS thing, even off-brand plug in USB keyboards on Windows computers. The OS (or rather the keyboard driver somewhere) tells the keyboard to turn on the light.
Holy shit thank you for this. The caps lock delay has been the one thing that has continually pissed me off as a lifelong Windows user who switched to Mac 3 years ago.
I have developed the terrible habit of using the caps lock key instead of the shift key when I’m trying to capitalize at the beginning of a sentence. Definitely not efficient but I can be bothered to undo a habit that I’ve had for over a decade. This is going to save me so much frustration
Yo what, I thought it mine was just slightly broken
Same! I use caps lock a lot and use it like any other key so I thought it was jammed or broken or something.
Same! I use caps lock a lot and use it like any other key so I thought it was jammed or broken or something.
I’m sure the simple answer is data or code input, but I like to imagine you’re either really angry or a hobbyist Amazon reviewer and that’s why caps lock is dear to you. Or maybe a twitter club promoter?
For me, I just developed the bad habit of using the caps lock key instead of the shift key. So when I’m typing, I always use the caps lock key to capitalize the first letter of a sentence instead of holding shift down. At this point it’s so ingrained in me I can’t really get myself out of the habit. Some other user posted a script that eliminates the delay and it’s a breath of fresh air
Yeah it’s a slight delay before it activates. Been on MacBooks since I got my first one in 2010.
It’s one of those things like faceid where it just works without you ever having to think about it.
Idk it activates pretty fast for me, I can't get it to not activate. 2023 M2 pro
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Idk it activates pretty fast for me, I can't get it to not activate. 2023 M2 pro
I don't think I've ever had that experience with Face ID haha, but I get the sentiment. Never seems to work reliably for me.
Touch ID, other the other hand, is just chefs kiss.
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This was always the case. Already on the wired Mac keyboard and the Magic Keyboard too. This is not Mac book specific. But a nice feature.
I don’t like it, can I disable it? Much more often I mean to press it and it isn’t pressed than I didn’t mean to and this feature helped…
Reality:
A long press engages the capslock function.
A quick press is used to switch languages. So if you've set your computer to just 1 language, it's not going to do anything. If you have more than 1 language, it switches between them immediately. There is no delay.
Apple fanbois.. Apple is using AI magic to know when I want to press it.
Oh wow. This also is the case with the regular Magic Keyboard.
Oh wow. This also is the case with the regular Magic Keyboard.
Is that why when I try to turn it off, it turns on 😂
Is that why when I try to turn it off, it turns on 😂
Reality:
A long press engages the capslock function.
A quick press is used to switch languages. So if you've set your computer to just 1 language, it's not going to do anything. If you have more than 1 language, it switches between them immediately. There is no delay.
Apple fanbois.. Apple is using AI magic to know when I want to press it.
A quick press is used to switch languages. So if you've set your computer to just 1 language, it's not going to do anything. If you have more than 1 language, it switches between them immediately. There is no delay.
I have multiple languages and that's definitely not how it works. Perhaps you have a different keyboard layout. The fn key is how you switch languages. It even has the symbol for it.
Though the guy is talking about something else; it was the best screenshot that showed where the setting is.
For me, pressing just the fn key does nothing and even mine has the symbol. "fn+space" just puts a space. I can easily switch languages using the capslock. If I do a slightly longer press; the capslock turns on.
Under Keyboard --> Keyboard there's an on-by-default option that says "Press to " where is the globe symbol. The default entry on the drop down menu is "Change Input Source".
I disabled Caps Lock on my keyboard :)
I’ve never accidentally hit CAPS lock button on any computer ever.
Looks like a MacBook keyboard driver exclusive feature though. I’m often using a Keychron K3 and get so mad when accidentally fat fingering caps lock instead of tab.
My MacBook Pro from 2007 had this - when they were on the second generation of Intel devices. A lot of people thought it was a keyboard defect back then. And reading this thread, they still do :)
I remapped my caps lock key to be CTRL instead. It’s much more useful that way.
Is that why 3rd party keyboard sometimes show caps lock on when macos doesn't?
It gets it wrong half the time, a constant frustration for my 14 years of Mac ownership
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Well, it's not reading my mind properly unfortunately... Any way to turn this off and make it behave just like a normal button?
My Caps Lock is keybound to ESC, which is maybe a holdover from my touchbar days but now that I'm used to it I love it.
Same with the power button.
I install karabiner just to get rid of this delay. The delay just misses the caps lock press for me.
in multiple decades of using computers I have never ever had a need for caps lock, i probably cared most about that useless button in my vim/emacs years where it got remapped to esc until this day
Eh, I end up going to caps for short stints when programming and sometimes it misses if I’m going too fast so I’m not the biggest fan.
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