This indicator is driving me bonkers, it has shown up on both my home and work laptop and I have no idea why. Advice I've gotten from google suggests going to a Screen configurations tab in advanced display settings to turn off caps lock indicators but that tab does not appear on either computer. I am using a logitech MX Master 2S mouse and a Keychron K8 TKL keyboard which is attached to both laptops,
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In the event you have Logitech Options installed but can't find the settings screen other answers talk about:
(copied from my response to a similar post)
From my experience this is most commonly caused by either Logitech's SetPoint software or LogitechOptions software (different software for different models of peripherals).
While I'm not sure about SetPoint, for LogitechOptions there is apparently a bug where the CAPSLOCK notification can get toggled and then stay on. This usually happens if you plug in a logitech keyboard as the software defaults to having that option on.
Normally you can go into the keyboard options and disable the pop-up, however if you no longer have the keyboard plugged in then the software just doesn't give you the menu to disable the option.
The easiest way I've found to quickly fix this is by modifying the settings file directly:
- On
Windows, navigate to your local app data - WIN+R -->%appdata%\Logishrd\LogiOptions - Find options.xml and open in a text editor of some sorts
- Find and modify the line
<useroption name="showLockNotifications" value="1" />to havevalue=0to disable the notification - Restart / open
LogitechOptionssoftware to let changes take effect - Regain sanity
Turns out this is caused by the logitech options app (comes with their mice and keyboards, in my case came with my logitech MX Master 2S mouse. It turns out there's some kind of bug in the logitech options app around this caps lock indicator, by default it isn's switched on but can randomly become switched on. There is an option to switch off the notification but it doesn't appear unless you have a logitech keyboard installed, which I didn't. My solution was to remove the logitech options app, which isn't perfect but was better than that horrible indicator.
1@Ellis I ran into the same problem the other day (with an MX Master 3), though I didn't want to remove Options as I use a lot of custom button mapping.
Anyways, I figured out that if you download Logitech Setpoint (), it will give you that missing option to add/remove the notifications for caps/num lock keys being pressed. I turned this off, hit apply, and the notifications stopped.
I also did this on my girlfriend's computers as she uses the MX Vertical and was annoyed with the same issue. For hers, it didn't resolve the issue until I connected my mouse to her computer, though I don't know if that was an issue with her computer or something software-related.
Hopefully this helps with yours as well, so that you can keep using Options.
Update: So today, the notification came back. I had been receiving some update notification from Logitech all day and not paying attention, and just noticed that when I hit Caps Lock, it popped up on the screen as before. I uninstalled/reinstalled Setpoint and the notification was again gone. I'm not sure what the connection is, but I've disabled Setpoint's software updates to hopefully avoid the issue in the future.
In case you want to use the Logitech Options application, you can disable the Caps lock indicator by following below steps
- Open Logitech Options
- Click on the Keyboard
- Click More -> This device
- Under Notifications -> untick -> A lock key is pressed
This will remove the cap locks indicator.
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