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Keyboard Caps Lock as Ctrl

Asked by John Rose

In Gutsy, I was able to Change the keyboard Caps Lock to Ctrl. However, in Hardy there no longer seem sto be a way of doing this. I'm sure this is very simpe to solev, but I would apprecaiet an answer. Thank you.

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Allen Chemist (alchemist) said : 		#1

Type the following into a terminal:

xmodmap -e "remove lock = Caps_Lock"
xmodmap -e "keycode 66 = Control_L"
xmodmap -e "add Control = Control_L"

This should make "caps lock" equivalent to your left control key. You will need to do this every re-start, but you can automate that by pasting the above 3 lines in your ~/.bashrc

HTH
-Allen

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John Rose (johnaaronrose) said : 		#2

Allen,

The first line gave an error:
xmodmap: commandline:1: bad keysym in remove modifier list 'Caps_Lock', no corresponding keycodes

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Tony Pursell (ajpursell) said : 		#3

Have you tried System > Preferences > Keyboard > Layouts > Layout Options > Ctrl Key Options > Swap Ctrl and CapsLock

Please lets us know if this works for you.

Tony

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