How can I make my caps lock key act like a control key?

How can I make my caps lock key act like a control key?

[emacs615]

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.
Help on this issue would be appreciated.
Thanks,
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Re: How can I make my caps lock key act like a control key?

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

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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Re: How can I make my caps lock key act like a control key?

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

emacs615 <benjaminbondtate@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.
> Help on this issue would be appreciated.

It's not the linux shell, it's the linux console virtual terminals.
As you know, you will have to use loadkeys (and not xmodmap).

Make a copy of your prefered map (dumpkeys is ok), and edit it.  My
capslock was near the 'a' key, so I replaced it with Control (keycode
29):

keycode  29 = Control
keycode  30 = a
keycode  31 = s
keycode  32 = d
keycode  33 = f
keycode  34 = g
keycode  35 = h
keycode  36 = j
keycode  37 = k
keycode  38 = l
keycode  39 = semicolon        colon
	alt	keycode  39 = Meta_semicolon

This maps the keys of the keyboard, each having a unique keycode,  on
the left, to the meaning of the key, on the right.


Unix shells are just programs like any other.  They're not terminals.
Keyboards are managed by terminals, be them real or virtual.

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Re: How can I make my caps lock key act like a control key?

[Csányi Pál]

emacs615 <benjaminbondtate@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

Copy your kmap (my is hu.kmap.gz) to a file, say .my_console_keymap:

cp /usr/share/keymaps/i386/qwertz/hu.kmap.gz ~/.my_console_keymap

edit this file:

mcedit ~/.my_console_keymap

keycode 58 = Control
control keycode 58 = Control

Caps Lock came the Control key.

keycode 29 = Last_Console

The Left Control came the Last Console.

Last Console switch to the last visited console.


At console Login this load my console keymap:

mcedit ~/.bash_profile

sudo loadkeys ~/.my_console_keymap

I hope this helps!

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How can I make my caps lock key act like a control key?

[ken]

This is more a Linux systems question than an emacs problem.  But 
hopefully no one here will be too offended.

As with most things unix and, more, linux, there's a number of ways. 
What I've done is swapped Control and CapsLock in the system file where 
they are initially defined, in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/. 
Depending upon your machine (uname -m) and how it's set up, the file you 
want to look at might be in a different directory.  On some Linuxes you 
can find the file with "cat /etc/defkeymap.name".  If this works for 
you, then you should just be able to hand edit /etc/defkeymap.map... it 
should be obvious what editing needs to be done.  If I'm remembering 
correctly, you'd just want to change the line beginning

keycode  58 =

to read "Control" instead of "Caps_Lock".

Alternatively, you could make a copy of your preferred keyboard map in 
or around /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/ (naming it, say, 
nocapslock.map), edit that file in the same sort of way as above, and 
then write in nocapslock.map into /etc/defkeymap.map.


Because these are a system files, the key(s) are swapped for anyone 
using this machine without X (which, for all practical purposes on my 
system, is just myself).

There's other ways to do what you want... query a search engine for them 
if you're interested in alternative, probably more doctrinaire methods.

hth.




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.
Help on this issue would be appreciated.
Thanks,
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Re: How can I make my caps lock key act like a control key?

[emacs615]

emacs615 <benjaminbondtate@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.
> Help on this issue would be appreciated.


>>Make a copy of your prefered map (dumpkeys is ok), and edit it.  My
>>capslock was near the 'a' key, so I replaced it with Control (keycode
>>29):
>>keycode  29 = Control
>>This maps the keys of the keyboard, each having a unique keycode,  on
>>the left, to the meaning of the key, on the right.

I followed your advice and I made a copy of the current keymap for editing
with this command:
`dumpkeys > trialmap`
`emacs trialmap`
   in emacs:   `keycode 29 = Control`       //This WAS originally Caps_Lock
                   `keycode 58 = Control`
`loadkeys trialmap`  //outputs "loading keys" -- then finished w/ no errors
BUT still no effect, so I tried for good measure:
`gzip trialmap`
`loadkeys trialmap.gz`  //no effect either I can see the changes in the file
are correct and get no errors but no changes take effect.

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Re: How can I make my caps lock key act like a control key?

[Csányi Pál]

emacs615 <benjaminbondtate@gmail.com> writes:

> emacs615 <benjaminbondtate@gmail.com> writes:
> `loadkeys trialmap.gz`  //no effect either I can see the changes in the file
> are correct and get no errors but no changes take effect.

Have you tried run this command as root?

I would try:

sudo loadkeys trialmap.gz

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Re: How can I make my caps lock key act like a control key?

[emacs615]

Yes, I am running these commands as the root user.  Still -- no luck.  
>>>Have you tried run this command as root?

Paul Csanyi wrote:
> 
> emacs615 <benjaminbondtate@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> emacs615 <benjaminbondtate@gmail.com> writes:
>> `loadkeys trialmap.gz`  //no effect either I can see the changes in the
>> file
>> are correct and get no errors but no changes take effect.
> 
> Have you tried run this command as root?
> 
> I would try:
> 
> sudo loadkeys trialmap.gz
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Re: How can I make my caps lock key act like a control key?

[Nikolaj Schumacher]

emacs615 <benjaminbondtate@gmail.com> wrote:

> I followed your advice and I made a copy of the current keymap for editing
> with this command:

Okay,

I honestly didn't parse all the letter salad in this thread :)
but I thought I'd chime in with what I used to do years ago.  There's no
need to copy and edit keymaps, just do:

loadkeys <<EOF
keymaps 0-2,4-6,8-9,12
keycode 58 = Control
keycode 29 = nul
EOF



regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher

Re: How can I make my caps lock key act like a control key?

[Csányi Pál]

emacs615 <benjaminbondtate@gmail.com> writes:

> Yes, I am running these commands as the root user.  Still -- no luck.  
>>>>Have you tried run this command as root?

OK

I find a solution for myself!

I used showkey to get keycodes of the relevant keys.
I get these in hexadecimal form, so I used Emacs calculator 
M-x calculator and converted these numbers in to decimal form (H or D
in calculator show the number in hexad. or decim. form.).

I used 

dumpkeys > ConsoleKeymap

to get recent keymap and with 

M-x ediff

I compared ConsoleKeymap with copied keymap.
It was OK so I go further.

Then I edited the copied keymap, swap the keys, and load it:

sudo loadkeys ~/keymap.gz

I get the keys on the Console as I whish! :D

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