On 16/12/2021 01:53, Tim Woodall wrote:
I run the following command to switch my caps-lock to escape:
xmodmap -e 'clear Lock' -e 'keycode 0x42 = Escape'
However, if I disconnect and reconnect my keyboard (I have a KVM switch
box so this happens quite a lot) the setting is lost.
Before I start writing udev rules to auto reapply this setting when the
keyboard is (re)attached, is there some other, better, way to make this
setting stick?
I don't know if it's better, but there's a simple thing you can try first:
I used to run
setxkbmap -option compose:caps
in my startup script to map the Capslock key to a Compose key. But this would
unpredictably drop out.
Now, in /etc/default/keyboard
XKBOPTIONS="compose:caps"
keeps the mapping reliably applied. Maybe there's a similar setting you could
try?
--
John
