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From: nobody@not.for.email (Timothy J. Lee)
Subject: Re: Control, CapsLock key switch
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rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri) writes:
|In article <timleeEAs1HF.GyM@netcom.com>,
|Timothy J. Lee <see-signature-for-email-address---ads-not-welcome> wrote:
|>On FreeBSD 2.2.1, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config has a line which
|>supposedly causes the Control and CapsLock keys to be switched:
|>
|>	XkbOptions  "ctrl:swapcaps"
|>
|>But it (uncommented) has no effect when using X.  What else must
|>be done, and is there a solution that also works when not using X?
|
|My XF86Config lives in /etc; does your X setup look in the location
|you've given above?

If I edit the file so that it has errors, I'll see errors when I try
to startx.

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Timothy J. Lee                                                   timlee@
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