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Re: How can I make my caps lock key act like a control key?
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Chris F.A. Johnson |
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Re: How can I make my caps lock key act like a control key? |
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Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:40:47 +0000 |
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On 2008-07-15, emacs615 wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am having trouble mapping my caps lock key to control key in my linux
> shell(NOT X). I want both the control and caps lock keys to act like control
> keys. I've tried using loadkeys and I'm not getting errors, but I can't get
> it to work. I've used dumpkeys to get a keymap, edited the map to where
> both the caps lock and control keys have the same key code (58 i think). I
> then load this map with loadkeys and there are no errors but nothing
> happens. I tried opening a new shell just in case and still no changes have
> occurred.
$ cat ~/.xmodmaprc
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = Escape
keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
add Control = Control_L
$ xmodmap ~/.xmodmaprc
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How can I make my caps lock key act like a control key?, ken, 2008/07/16
Re: How can I make my caps lock key act like a control key?,
Chris F.A. Johnson <=