{"id":2612,"date":"2013-12-20T12:37:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T12:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=2612"},"modified":"2013-12-20T12:49:03","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T12:49:03","slug":"display-lock-keys-status-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/display-lock-keys-status-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Display Lock Keys Status &#038; Notifications in Unity Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/caps-lock-on-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2613\" alt=\"Lock Keys indicator ubuntu\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/caps-lock-on-1.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For Ubuntu laptops that don&#8217;t have LED indicators, indicator applet on panel that displays Lock Keys status as well as notifications may be helpful.<\/p>\n<p><b>Indicator-keylock<\/b> is the applet for Ubuntu Linux, which displays Lock Keys status on panel and notifications when status changed. <\/p>\n<p>Screenshots:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Caps-Lock-on.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Caps-Lock-on.jpg\" alt=\"Caps Lock on\" width=\"401\" height=\"153\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Caps-Lock-on.jpg 401w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Caps-Lock-on-300x114.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Caps-Lock-off.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Caps-Lock-off.jpg\" alt=\"Caps Lock off\" width=\"401\" height=\"153\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Caps-Lock-off.jpg 401w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Caps-Lock-off-300x114.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/num-lock-on.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/num-lock-on.jpg\" alt=\"num lock on\" width=\"401\" height=\"153\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/num-lock-on.jpg 401w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/num-lock-on-300x114.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/num-lock-off.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/num-lock-off.jpg\" alt=\"num lock off\" width=\"401\" height=\"153\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/num-lock-off.jpg 401w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/num-lock-off-300x114.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By default the indicator will be used only when the Caps Lock key is on, it can be easily changed by the Preferences settings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/lock-key-indicator.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/lock-key-indicator.jpg\" alt=\"lock key indicator\" width=\"560\" height=\"234\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2618\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/lock-key-indicator.jpg 560w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/lock-key-indicator-300x125.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Install indicator-keylock<\/h3>\n<p>Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:tsbarnes\/indicator-keylock\n\nsudo apt-get update\n\nsudo apt-get install indicator-keylock<\/pre>\n<p>Works on Unity, Xfce, Gnome Shell (only notifications), Gnome Classic for Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 11.04, Ubuntu 10.04.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; For Ubuntu laptops that don&#8217;t have LED indicators, indicator applet on panel that displays Lock Keys status as well as notifications may be helpful. Indicator-keylock is the applet for Ubuntu Linux, which displays Lock Keys status on panel and notifications when status changed. Screenshots: By default the indicator will be used only when the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[908],"class_list":["post-2612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-lock-keys-indicator"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}