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Title: caps lock disabled with backlit keyboard
Post by: patthebaker17 on Wed, 11 December 2013, 23:09:17: I recently disabled caps lock and turned it into a shift key since that key is useless. Also using shift to run in fps games cramps my hand. I am going to buy a cm storm with browns for gaming and typing (tried a display keyboard and loved it) and I was wondering what would happen to the backlights if the key is disabled. On my keyboard i currently have which is an irocks the caps lock won't turn on. But when I get my mechanical, I would rather have it on so the whole board is uniform instead of off

If anyone has experience with this I'd appreciate your help :)
Title: Re: caps lock disabled with backlit keyboard
Post by: SpAmRaY on Wed, 11 December 2013, 23:12:18: How are you planning on disabling the key??
Title: Re: caps lock disabled with backlit keyboard
Post by: patthebaker17 on Wed, 11 December 2013, 23:16:30: I did it via registry files from this link http://johnhaller.com/useful-stuff/disable-caps-lock
Title: Re: caps lock disabled with backlit keyboard
Post by: Grendel on Wed, 11 December 2013, 23:53:05: KeyTweak (http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/keytweak/) is a nice utility to mess w/ these registry entries. Very useful (I mapped my CapsLock to Play/Pause.)
Title: Re: caps lock disabled with backlit keyboard
Post by: SpAmRaY on Wed, 11 December 2013, 23:54:57: Quote from: Grendel on Wed, 11 December 2013, 23:53:05
KeyTweak (http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/keytweak/) is a nice utility to mess w/ these registry entries. Very useful (I mapped my CapsLock to Play/Pause.)

yeah keytweak is handy I've used it in the past.
Title: Re: caps lock disabled with backlit keyboard
Post by: rowdy on Wed, 11 December 2013, 23:59:49: In general the caps lock backlight is only on when the caps lock is engaged.

If you disable the key via the registry, I guess the keyboard would still think you had pressed it, but the operating system would ignore it.

Or maybe not.
Title: Re: caps lock disabled with backlit keyboard
Post by: Grendel on Thu, 12 December 2013, 00:05:03: The caps-LED (and status) is controlled by the OS (not the keyboard) and turned on when the CL key is detected. If the CL key is mapped to some other function via the method above, pressing it will not turn the LED on. Any other key mapped to be CL would.
Title: Re: caps lock disabled with backlit keyboard
Post by: patthebaker17 on Thu, 12 December 2013, 02:05:43: thanks for all the help guys!
too bad about the led but i guess i can live with such an adjustment
keytweak looks very helpful, thinking about changing cl to control like many other layouts
Title: Re: caps lock disabled with backlit keyboard
Post by: rowdy on Thu, 12 December 2013, 03:49:02: I guess you could probably cut the traces to the LED under the PCB, then solder some wires from other LED connections to the caps lock LED.