Bug ID: JDK-8034850 Toolkit.setLockingKeyState(VK_CAPS

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Toolkit.setLockingKeyState throws UnsupportedOperationException on Linux and does not change CapsLock state. 

At the same time the CapsLock state can be changed by the AWT Robot. 

The attached program demonstrates the issue.

akulyakh@akulyakh:~/NetBeansProject/CapsLock/src$ java CapsLock 
Caps lock now: off
java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Toolkit.setLockingKeyState
	at java.awt.Toolkit.setLockingKeyState(Toolkit.java:1441)
	at CapsLock.toolkitToggleCapsLock(CapsLock.java:11)
	at CapsLock.main(CapsLock.java:45)
Toggled by toolkit. Caps lock now: off
Toggled by robot. Caps lock now: on
akulyakh@akulyakh:~/NetBeansProject/CapsLock/src$ java CapsLock 
Caps lock now: on
java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: Toolkit.setLockingKeyState
	at java.awt.Toolkit.setLockingKeyState(Toolkit.java:1441)
	at CapsLock.toolkitToggleCapsLock(CapsLock.java:11)
	at CapsLock.main(CapsLock.java:45)
Toggled by toolkit. Caps lock now: on
Toggled by robot. Caps lock now: off