# Stupid question: CAPS LOCK **URL:** \ **Category:** Help and Getting Started\ **Created:** [August 6, 2018, 5:36pm UTC](https://community.keyboard.io/t/stupid-question-caps-lock/1887 "2018-08-06T17:36:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gergyor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@gergyor](https://community.keyboard.io/u/gergyor)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 5:36pm UTC](https://community.keyboard.io/t/stupid-question-caps-lock/1887/1 "2018-08-06T17:36:32Z")
Somehow I got into caps lock and couldn’t get out. It isn’t on the cheat sheet I have. I was typing fast, so who knows which/ how many keys I pressed at once. 🙂 What is the key combo? thanks, greg ---
**Author:** ![fishheadsoup](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.keyboard.io/fishheadsoup/32/161_2.png) [@fishheadsoup](https://community.keyboard.io/u/fishheadsoup)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 5:43pm UTC](https://community.keyboard.io/t/stupid-question-caps-lock/1887/2 "2018-08-06T17:43:42Z")
I don’t think there’s a default caps lock on the qwerty layout. I’d check your config. Do you have one shot mods or stickies on? I know if I double tap shift, it becomes persistent. Do your numbers work or are they meta? Worse comes to worse, reboot. ---
**Author:** ![gergyor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@gergyor](https://community.keyboard.io/u/gergyor)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 7:55pm UTC](https://community.keyboard.io/t/stupid-question-caps-lock/1887/3 "2018-08-06T19:55:14Z")
The weird thing is that my layout is completely unmodified. I rebooted. Thanks, greg ---
**Author:** ![fishheadsoup](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.keyboard.io/fishheadsoup/32/161_2.png) [@fishheadsoup](https://community.keyboard.io/u/fishheadsoup)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 8:08pm UTC](https://community.keyboard.io/t/stupid-question-caps-lock/1887/4 "2018-08-06T20:08:31Z")
Type fast again, see if you can replicate. ---
**Author:** ![algernon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.keyboard.io/algernon/32/4404_2.png) [@algernon](https://community.keyboard.io/u/algernon)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 8:16pm UTC](https://community.keyboard.io/t/stupid-question-caps-lock/1887/5 "2018-08-06T20:16:16Z")
Are you, by any chance, using keys on the `Fn` layer, like `Fn-U` or `Fn-I` (`{` and `}`, respectively)? I _seem_ to recall there being a bug that might result in `Shift` getting stuck. If I remember correctly, we fixed it since, so updating to the latest firmware should help with that, if you’re hitting this bug. (Again, if I remember correctly - I might be remembering wrong.) If it happens again, check if numbers appear shifted too! If that’s the case, then you have a stuck `Shift` and not a `CapsLock`, as that only affects alphas. In this case, if you don’t want to upgrade the firmware (which can be a scary process at first), disconnecting and reconnecting the keyboard should help. (AKA, rebooting the _keyboard_, not necessarily the whole computer) ---
**Author:** ![gergyor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@gergyor](https://community.keyboard.io/u/gergyor)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 9:27pm UTC](https://community.keyboard.io/t/stupid-question-caps-lock/1887/6 "2018-08-06T21:27:30Z")
I do use keys on the Fn layer. I’ll keep my eyes out for this bug (if it is the bug, and if that bug exists. 🙂 ) Thanks all for your help. greg ---
**Author:** ![ilmagico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3da27b/32.png) [@ilmagico](https://community.keyboard.io/u/ilmagico)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 11:35pm UTC](https://community.keyboard.io/t/stupid-question-caps-lock/1887/7 "2018-08-06T23:35:39Z")
@gergyor Did you by any chance hit capslock by mistake on another keyboard (e.g. on the laptop’s keyboard, if this is a laptop, or on your old but still connected keyboard)? I know I had that problem before changing the layout of my Model01 to have capslock itself… ---
**Author:** ![gergyor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@gergyor](https://community.keyboard.io/u/gergyor)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 12:07am UTC](https://community.keyboard.io/t/stupid-question-caps-lock/1887/8 "2018-08-07T00:07:00Z")
Good thought, but no, this changed right in the middle of typing. greg ---
**Author:** ![flussence](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.keyboard.io/flussence/32/19_2.png) [@flussence](https://community.keyboard.io/u/flussence)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 8:12pm UTC](https://community.keyboard.io/t/stupid-question-caps-lock/1887/9 "2018-08-07T20:12:38Z")
If you’re using a recent firmware, capslock is on Fn+LED. ---
**Author:** ![glasser](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.keyboard.io/glasser/32/414_2.png) [@glasser](https://community.keyboard.io/u/glasser)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 10:41pm UTC](https://community.keyboard.io/t/stupid-question-caps-lock/1887/10 "2018-08-10T22:41:23Z")
Yep, added at [https://github.com/keyboardio/Model01-Firmware/commit/a5b86bea5](https://github.com/keyboardio/Model01-Firmware/commit/a5b86bea5) I had the opposite question, but I figured it out while composing this: I updated my firmware to include that commit but caps lock didn’t work. I had to go to my mac System Preferences -\> Keyboard -\> Modifier Keys and change Caps Lock to be Caps Lock (which I want to be different from my laptop keyboard, which it does support). Now, it would be nice if Kaleidoscope-LED-ActiveModColor supported this too (or maybe it would be a nice default)… ---
**Author:** ![glasser](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.keyboard.io/glasser/32/414_2.png) [@glasser](https://community.keyboard.io/u/glasser)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 10:42pm UTC](https://community.keyboard.io/t/stupid-question-caps-lock/1887/11 "2018-08-10T22:42:08Z")
Aha, [https://github.com/keyboardio/Kaleidoscope-LED-ActiveModColor/issues/10](https://github.com/keyboardio/Kaleidoscope-LED-ActiveModColor/issues/10) ---
**Author:** ![Claire\_Yu-Ting\_Huang](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.keyboard.io/claire_yu-ting_huang/32/2297_2.png) [@Claire\_Yu-Ting\_Huang](https://community.keyboard.io/u/Claire_Yu-Ting_Huang)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2018, 6:10pm UTC](https://community.keyboard.io/t/stupid-question-caps-lock/1887/12 "2018-10-19T18:10:42Z")
I just met exactly same issue as Gergyor. Caps lock is suddenly turned on, and what I can do is connecting another regular keyboard to turn it off, stupid solution 🙂 I’m using the original firmware so Fn+LED doesn’t work. I wonder if there’s any quicker solution besides updating firmware?