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October 06, 2007

Logitech keyboard capslock notification window of doom

I was at the office the other day, and I plugged in my logitech keyboard. It's about 3 years old, but it still works great. However, it wasn't working. I had forgotten to install the support for the keyboard, basically it's just this addon, similar to a driver for windows.

So I spend 5 minutes finding it on the logitech website, download it, and reboot the machine since that's required. So far, so good.

The machine comes back up, I log in, and the keyboard works. Awesome!

Ten minutes later I started working on something with the keyboard. As you all know based on my previous post about my use of capslock, I'm pretty heavy on using that key.

It looked something like this screenshot

Every time I hit capslock this notification would come up. EVERY. TIME. It was god awful annoying. Then I remembered a recent discussion regarding the mouse plugin event for a logitech mouse (that screenshot is from the affected user).

Long story short, this is annoying. For instance, up until this point in this blog post, I've pressed the capslock key 23 times. That'd be an enormous amount of notifications, just for this short post.

The solution is actually quite simple, and very much what was suggested on the list. Basically, it's 2 steps:

1) open /Library/Application\ Support/Logitech/LCCDaemon.app/Contents/

2) Move NotificationSquareWindow.nib and NotificationSquareWindow.nib somewhere else. I moved them to my desktop to test with.

That's it, this annoyingness goes away.

This may be weird coming from the guy who started Growl, but holy wow, I have no control over this, there's not even a silly checkbox for this. Isn't that nutty?