Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 11:39:42 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> To: gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: caps-lock/ctrl exchange Message-ID: <19980730113942.B24562@ct.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <199807292112.OAA19686@bogslab.ucdavis.edu>; from Greg Shenaut on Wed, Jul 29, 1998 at 02:12:06PM -0700 References: <199807292112.OAA19686@bogslab.ucdavis.edu>
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Greg Shenaut:
|This may be a very dumb question, but I haven't been able to find
|the answer to it. I have several computers with the traditional
|ctrl-next-to-A layout, and an increasing number with the bogus
|but IBM-mandated ctrl-lost-somewhere-down-next-to-the-space-bar
|layout, some of which are laptops so that I cannot just use an
|alternate keyboard. There *must* be a way to swap these keys in
|a way that will work with the standard console as well as with X
|windows. Could someone please tell me how to do it? (A compile
|time flag would be fine, a sysctl variable even better, an ioctl
|on the kbd device would be best.)
I swap these keys on the console and on X myself. Much easier on the
fingers, especially in Emacs (Ctrl-<insert-key-here>).
I see Johnathon already told you about how to do it on the console. For X,
simply create file (e.g. $HOME/cfg/xmodmap/swapctlcaps) with this in it:
!
! Swap Caps_Lock and Control_L
!
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
remove Control = Control_L
keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
add Lock = Caps_Lock
add Control = Control_L
and add this command to your $HOME/.xinitrc:
xmodmap - < $HOME/cfg/xmodmap/swapctlcaps
Randall
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