Bug#1118257: libmutter-16-0: Caps lock behaviour is sometimes reversed and inconsistent after resume

[Simon McVittie]

On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 at 15:04:58 +0200, Alessandro Astone wrote:
>I've recently looked into this for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS too.
>
>https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/4546 is not 
>included in 48.6
>
>In facts, it relies on some other API changes introducing 
>clutter_keymap_get_modifier_state():
>
>* https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/4394
>* https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/4395/diffs?commit_id=1940c6eba938a9413b93694573501153788d1f0f
>
>These cannot be directly backported without breaking other consumers 
>of libmutter, like gnome-kiosk.
>
>The fix description doesn't really explain why the previous approach 
>didn't work, so I also couldn't quite figure out how to fix it without 
>relying on the new API.

This sounds like too high a regression risk for a stable release, so I'm 
inclined to leave this unfixed in trixie, unless someone can do the 
diagnosis and fix it differently upstream.

     smcv