On 0, Thorsten Haude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to get my caps lock key a new purpose (because I absolutely > despise the current one) and want to hear your opinion about it. > > There are several options: > - a second ctrl key > - make a Modn key from the OS key, another Modn key from caps lock > - make the same Modn key form OS key and caps lock > > So what are your thoughts about this? Is there another good use I > could put caps lock to? Experiences?
My pinky has loved me ever since I used a Sun keyboard and got used to
it, and then figured out how to make X treat Caps-Lock as a control.
Putting this in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 will do it:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps,alt:altismeta"
EndSection
or putting this in ~/.xmodmap:
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
remove Control = Control_L
keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
add Lock = Caps_Lock
add Control = Control_L
and using it with this command:
xmodmap ~/.xmodmap
Some of the other suggestions have been quite inventive, though, I
thought.
Regards
Tom
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