xmodmap keybinding for god-mode

xmodmap keybinding for god-mode

[Steven Arntson]

This question is more about xmodmap than god-mode, but ...

I'm starting to use god-mode and really enjoying it. There are some
directions on the maintainer's website about remapping esc to caps_lock,
for easier toggling of the mode, by writing a .xmodmap file, viz:

| remove Lock = Caps_Lock
| keysym Caps_Lock = Escape

I saved that to my ~/ and then from eshell I ran:

| xmodmap .xmodmap

And everything worked as it should. However, it doesn't keep working
that way. The rebinding turns itself off if the computer goes to sleep
for awhile, or if I restart. Is there a way to make that rebinding
permanent?  I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 and Emacs 24.4.1.

Thank you!
Steven

Re: xmodmap keybinding for god-mode

[Rusi]

On Saturday, December 13, 2014 12:35:24 AM UTC+5:30, Steven Arntson wrote:
> This question is more about xmodmap than god-mode, but ...
> 
> I'm starting to use god-mode and really enjoying it. There are some
> directions on the maintainer's website about remapping esc to caps_lock,
> for easier toggling of the mode, by writing a .xmodmap file, viz:
> 
> | remove Lock = Caps_Lock
> | keysym Caps_Lock = Escape
> 
> I saved that to my ~/ and then from eshell I ran:
> 
> | xmodmap .xmodmap
> 
> And everything worked as it should. However, it doesn't keep working
> that way. The rebinding turns itself off if the computer goes to sleep
> for awhile, or if I restart. Is there a way to make that rebinding
> permanent?  I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 and Emacs 24.4.1.
> 
> Thank you!
> Steven

xmodmap is considered obsolete (or at least obsolescent)

setxkbmap is more current.

However more window-manager specific stuff is probably best
Does this help?
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MovingTheCtrlKey

Re: xmodmap keybinding for god-mode

[Steven Arntson]

Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

> On Saturday, December 13, 2014 12:35:24 AM UTC+5:30, Steven Arntson wrote:
>> This question is more about xmodmap than god-mode, but ...
>> 
>> I'm starting to use god-mode and really enjoying it. There are some
>> directions on the maintainer's website about remapping esc to caps_lock,
>> for easier toggling of the mode, by writing a .xmodmap file, viz:
>> 
>> | remove Lock = Caps_Lock
>> | keysym Caps_Lock = Escape
>> 
>> I saved that to my ~/ and then from eshell I ran:
>> 
>> | xmodmap .xmodmap
>> 
>> And everything worked as it should. However, it doesn't keep working
>> that way. The rebinding turns itself off if the computer goes to sleep
>> for awhile, or if I restart. Is there a way to make that rebinding
>> permanent?  I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 and Emacs 24.4.1.
>> 
>> Thank you!
>> Steven
>
> xmodmap is considered obsolete (or at least obsolescent)
>
> setxkbmap is more current.
>
> However more window-manager specific stuff is probably best
> Does this help?
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MovingTheCtrlKey


Emacswiki can be frustrating when there are so many outdated comments (I
see my current xmodmap approach there, for instance). However, you led
me in the right direction! I ran into some instructions on askubuntu.com
that directed me to enter this:

| dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/input-sources/xkb-options
| "['caps:escape']"

And it seems to have worked perfectly. Here's the whole thread, for
anyone interested:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/363346/how-to-permanently-switch-caps-lock-and-esc

I'll post this to the god-mode maintainer's page also, in case it's
useful there.

Best!
steven

Re: xmodmap keybinding for god-mode

[Rusi]

On Monday, December 15, 2014 12:37:50 AM UTC+5:30, Steven Arntson wrote:
> Rusi  writes:
> 
> > On Saturday, December 13, 2014 12:35:24 AM UTC+5:30, Steven Arntson wrote:
> >> This question is more about xmodmap than god-mode, but ...
> >> 
> >> I'm starting to use god-mode and really enjoying it. There are some
> >> directions on the maintainer's website about remapping esc to caps_lock,
> >> for easier toggling of the mode, by writing a .xmodmap file, viz:
> >> 
> >> | remove Lock = Caps_Lock
> >> | keysym Caps_Lock = Escape
> >> 
> >> I saved that to my ~/ and then from eshell I ran:
> >> 
> >> | xmodmap .xmodmap
> >> 
> >> And everything worked as it should. However, it doesn't keep working
> >> that way. The rebinding turns itself off if the computer goes to sleep
> >> for awhile, or if I restart. Is there a way to make that rebinding
> >> permanent?  I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 and Emacs 24.4.1.
> >> 
> >> Thank you!
> >> Steven
> >
> > xmodmap is considered obsolete (or at least obsolescent)
> >
> > setxkbmap is more current.
> >
> > However more window-manager specific stuff is probably best
> > Does this help?
> > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MovingTheCtrlKey
> 
> 
> Emacswiki can be frustrating when there are so many outdated comments (I
> see my current xmodmap approach there, for instance).

Heh!
On wikipedia a moron-army cleans out any useful stuff to reduce it to
canonical form.
On emacswiki no cleaning -- There are pages for emacs 20 !!