Caps lock light not working with chords

[thomastthai]

Requirements

• I've searched platform-specific issues, issues and discussions to see if this has been reported before.
• My issue is unrelated to multiple key presses, OR it is and I've confirmed it is not key ghosting.

Describe the bug

I've set my configuration so that pressing the chord left-shift + right-shift activates the caps lock on or off. While that works as intended, the caps lock LED light doesn't light up when the caps lock is on.

A similar setup in Karabiner-Elements turns on the caps lock LED when it's on.

Relevant kanata config

(defchordsv2
  (lsft rsft) caps 300 all-released ()
)

To Reproduce

1. Include the chord above
2. Press left-shift + right-shift

Expected behavior

The caps lock LED lights up when the caps lock is active.

Kanata version

Kanata latest as of commit fc1b95d

Debug logs

No response

Operating system

macOS Sequoia 15.1 (Apple Silicon)

Additional context

No response

[argenkiwi]

I am running Kanata v1.17.0 on MacOS Sequoia v15.2 and also observed the Caps Lock light won't turn on and off when activating Caps Lock. Furthermore, I seem to need to double tap Caps Lock to activate it when using tap-hold (or one of its variants) on it (e.g, caps (tap-hold-press-timeout 200 500 caps (layer-while-held extend) caps)).

[gitraar]

I am running Kanata v1.17.0 on MacOS Sequoia v15.2 and also observed the Caps Lock light won't turn on and off when activating Caps Lock. Furthermore, I seem to need to double tap Caps Lock to activate it when using tap-hold (or one of its variants) on it (e.g, caps (tap-hold-press-timeout 200 500 caps (layer-while-held extend) caps)).

Since Sequoia (I think), macOS only activates Caps Lock when the key is pressed for more than 100 ms (or so I read somewhere).

Try changing the line you posted to something like:
caps (tap-hold-press-timeout 200 500 (one-shot-press 150 caps) (layer-while-held extend) (one-shot-press 150 caps))

This makes kanata output the caps key for 150 ms and should activate your Caps Lock.

As for the LED not activating, I have the same problem and haven't yet found a way to solve it.

[argenkiwi]

Thanks for that! I have only recently returned to MacOS and was unaware of this intentional delay. It seems there is no easy way to disable it. What a pain...