Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 10:12:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: William Bulley <web@umich.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tried everything (Swap Caps_Lock and Control_L) nothing works! Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1503251008060.10123@tripel.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <20150325125708.GH3131@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu> References: <20150325125708.GH3131@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu>
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On Wed, 25 Mar 2015, William Bulley wrote:
> This is really annoying. I know I have used xmodmap(1) in the past
> and it served me well. I now have a Dell keyboard on a Dell system
> and I can't get the caps lock key swapped with the left control key.
>
> Here is what I have now (yes, both -- belt and suspenders...):
>
> unix% head -6 $HOME/.xmodmaprc
> 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
> unix% grep modmap .xinitrc
> /usr/local/bin/xmodmap $HOME/.xmodmaprc
> unix% grep swap /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
> unix% pkg info | grep xorg-server
> xorg-server-1.14.7_2,1 X.Org X server and related programs
The filename might be case sensitive. Here's mine, which works. Note the
capital X.
chris@tripel$ more /usr/home/chris/.Xmodmap
! Straight from the man page...
!
! 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...
chris@tripel$ grep odmap .xinitrc
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap
if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
xmodmap $sysmodmap
if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
xmodmap $usermodmap
I don't have an xorg.conf.
HTH.
--
Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org
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