How do I disable Caps Lock by command line?

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Published on 2011-11-17T17:51:29Z Indexed on 2011/11/17 18:08 UTC
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For some reason my laptop is stuck in Caps Lock. I have the Caps Lock key mapped by xmodmap to hyper_l, so I don't have a caps_lock key to turn it off. Is there a way I can turn it off by command line? It would be nice if I could reset the lock state without resetting my computer, especially for future reference. This has happened before, but I would like to know now how to do it properly this time.

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