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

["Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com>]

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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