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Manage That Keyboard: How to Disable Caps Lock
A friend of mine calls me every few months because he cannot login into his computer. It’s always the same reason: the caps lock key is pressed.
Setting aside the dubious idea of allowing caps lock to function at all for a login dialog (why encourage poor passwords?), how does one disable the caps lock key entirely? Simple:
- Open
- Click Modifiers Keys…
- Choose
Michael K writes:
Not sure if you're aware of the 'Modifier Keys' bug introduced in Sierra or not. In case you're not – Sierra resets all Modifier Keys back to their factory defaults upon restart, meaning you have change them back to what you want every time you start the computer.
This has survived through all four releases of Sierra – 10.12 through 10.12.3. One of the first things I've always done any new OS is set Caps Lock to No Action, however, since Sierra the option has to set by the user every single time the computer boots up. The Mac Pro (5,1) and MacBook Pro (10,1) are doing this but the Mac mini (6,2) is not.
I've filed two seperate bug reports with Apple, clear and concise, I've heard nothing back.
MPG: yes, I’ve seen the bug myself on multiple machines. I had forgotten the cause... indeed I had fixed my friend’s machine and the geniuses at Apple unfixed it, so to speak.
Just now, I rebooted my iMac 5K and I see that the modifier keys have been reset. Ditto for the 2015 MacBook Pro. OTOH, the 2013 Mac Pro does not suffer from the issue from what I have seen.
When will Apple incompetence end? Do we have to wait years now to have Tim Cook assure us that “we have great macOS software coming”? Their are hundreds of crappy little things like this that have accumulated all over macOS (don’t get me started on the clusterf*** that is iCloud).
