On 04/19/2013 11:14 AM, g wrote: > > On 04/19/2013 12:04 AM, Ian Pilcher wrote: >> Just when you think that laptop manufacturers couldn't go any farther >> off the rails, Lenovo has apparently decided that physical keyboard >> status LEDs are just too darn expensive. > > if you consider the oem cost for an led and associated circuit cost $0.10 > and they build runs of 10,000 of said laptop, they would save $1,000 per > run. > > could be they figured that i one is typing and letters change to upper > case, > one should realize that <caps lock> was pressed instead of <tab>. ;-) > >> Does anyone know of a keyboard LED applet/widget that can be used with >> KDE? (An actual Plasma widget is obviously preferred, but I'll take >> anything that can run in the system tray.) You could try out the 'keyboard indicator' available with 'cairo-dock' > > if you do not notice change in typing, would you see it in system tray? > ;;-) > > on serious side, if you know any c/c++ or basic [yuck], or al [yea], or > someone who does, you/they can capture key being pressed and 'ring a bell' > to notify of such. > > as for an applet/widget, nay. > -- Regards, Rejy M Cyriac (rmc) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
