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Toggle Caps Lock light on macOS Catalina from a shell scripts/terminal
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#!/usr/bin/osascript -l JavaScript | |
# Usage: capstoggle.sh [1 or 0, defaulting to 0] | |
# Pass in "1" to turn caps lock on. By default it turns caps lock off (0) | |
# | |
# Make this an executable shell script by running `chmod +x capstoggle.sh` | |
# Then `./capstoggle.sh 1` to turn caps lock on, and hence toggle the caps lock keyboard light! | |
# You can make your caps lock light flash 5 times by running this | |
# for i in {0..5}; do ./capstoggle.sh 1; ./capstoggle.sh 0; done | |
ObjC.import("IOKit"); | |
ObjC.import("CoreServices"); | |
var capsState; | |
function run(argv) { | |
capsState = argv[0] == '1'?1:0; | |
console.log("Setting caplock:",capsState); | |
(() => { | |
var ioConnect = Ref(); | |
var state = Ref(); | |
$.IOServiceOpen( | |
$.IOServiceGetMatchingService( | |
$.kIOMasterPortDefault, | |
$.IOServiceMatching( | |
$.kIOHIDSystemClass | |
) | |
), | |
$.mach_task_self_, | |
$.kIOHIDParamConnectType, | |
ioConnect | |
); | |
$.IOHIDSetModifierLockState(ioConnect, $.kIOHIDCapsLockState, capsState); | |
// The code below is supposed to get the current capslock state, but it never works for me | |
// state[0] is always false... I think it broke in Catalina. | |
// $.IOHIDGetModifierLockState(ioConnect, $.kIOHIDCapsLockState, state); | |
// console.log("--->", state[0]); | |
$.IOServiceClose(ioConnect); | |
})(); | |
} |
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Got the same problem here
state always returns false