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Console stuck in caps lock mode?

Posted September 16, 2015 36.7k views
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Not sure how it happened, but my droplet’s console (the browser one) is stuck in caps lock mode. How can I get it back to normal?

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  • devjoebar October 9, 2015
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    This is happening to me also. Although it’s always been caps lock for me. Really strange.

  • pixelsage July 14, 2019
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    This issue was posted four years ago with over 5k views, but no solution yet… I wonder how may devs have wasted hours and ultimately ditched DigitalOcean because of this.

  • dilini17 November 19, 2019
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    this happened to me while i was copy pasting a mysql DDL script. Rebooting helped.

  • trifu June 9, 2020
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    If your problem came after you copy paste in the console your public key the solution is the following:

    • make sure you don’t have the caps button on
    • keep shift key pressed while you write the word “reset” in your console After the reset command your terminal should be back to normal.

    And the solution to copy paste your public key is to copy paste chunks of it, i do it in chunks no bigger than 30 characters and it work, but you need to do it a couple of times to get your whole key.

  • arimus July 13, 2021
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    Yeah, this is pretty bad. Power cycle also helped me, but that’s a terrible solution for many reasons.

    DigitalOcean…please get a dev on this for a day and get it resolved. This is pretty embarrassing and surprised it hasn’t been fixed in 5+ years. And if you don’t have the cycles, then release the source code for the web console you are using or point to it and let us hack at it to provide some improvement patches. Then you just have to review the code and apply. Even if it seems like a low priority, it really shouldn’t be. When you get to the point you need the console, it’s pretty terrible to be fighting caps lock constantly (esp. in pasting).

    As always, love the products, but this is a bit of a failure in the table stakes of cloud VMs. <3

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vitali053da7bec08c8012c1a2 January 19, 2019

Shift+Caps Lock fixed the issue for me

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denizen February 11, 2019

Same problem here (while setting up SSH– incredibly frustrating!)

My workaround had been to hold SHIFT for lowercase, which is fun while editing ssh_config in vim.

In case it saves someone some frustration, you can tell the console that caps lock is on with the command:

setleds -D +caps

…which will negate the confused console app. (Actual caps lock key may work, but mine is remapped to CTRL)

Oh, and yes, the problem began when I pasted my public key into the terrible console app. After failing for several minutes to configure sshd to allow password-based authentication, the ultimate solution was to put the public key in a pastebin and wget / curl it from the console.

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ravi08b4ab66dcb69590c3c84d October 13, 2018

the console is dysfunctional to the point of being unusable. caps lock, and various other issues. not clear how to add the authorized_keys in, trying through console.

it is a chicken and egg question, how to get the login set up.

a nightmare

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Zabba October 28, 2018

Looks like rebooting the server helps. Try to login through the console (although having the caps lock stuck) and issue the reboot command: sudo reboot
You will be logged out. After the reboot login again.
Hope this helps!

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  • kristinkilli December 10, 2018

    Reboot was the solution for me. Unfortunately the terminal did not recognize the command when entered with caps, so I needed to reboot via droplet -> power -> powercycle. Thanks!

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dougwgough October 8, 2019

This is beyond useless. I can’t find any way to add an ssh key to my authorized_keys file.

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paul904040bbddb5306ae0cceb March 3, 2019

this has been an issue for 4 years? typing seems fine, but copying and pasting in to the terminal changes the casing - completely unusable

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tastybento August 15, 2018

Caps lock is out of sync. Happened when I tried to paste text into the console. I have a mac. I haven’t found a solution yet.

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usgoose January 17, 2019

This is bs, so annoying

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john66ee3b9ed5b4aa621e9029 February 1, 2019

Same problem here - console unusable!!!

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m15802599187 September 4, 2019

COMEON DIGI DO SOME SHIT ON IT

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