On Sat 16 Sep 2017 at 19:45:50 (+1000), Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 15.09.17 08:48, Peter Smith wrote: > > P.S.: I actually was able to change the keyboard layout later on by > > the Gnome Tweak tool, but nevertheless I do not unterstand why the > > official information does not work and it should be rectified. > > It is depressing to see the linux community succumb to unwarranted > creeping complexity. For nearly two decades, this has done it for me: > > $ more ~/.Xmodmap > keycode 0x42 = Escape > clear Lock > > That's consulted as X fires up, so if you copy your useful dot-files > across upgrades and reinstalls, it's done from here on out.
… which is a bit late for me. OTOH if one follows the wiki and edits XKBOPTIONS in /etc/default/keyboard, the Caps Lock will behave as ESC in the linux console as well as X. (Of course, I don't use Gnome.) XKBMODEL="pc105" XKBLAYOUT="gb" XKBVARIANT="" XKBOPTIONS="caps:escape,compose:menu,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" BACKSPACE="guess" Cheers, David.
