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From: andrew@gurney.zeta.org.au (Andrew Reilly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Control, CapsLock key switch
Date: 29 May 1997 02:53:46 GMT
Organization: Andrew and Catherine Reilly at home
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In article <timleeEAvLsM.3F1@netcom.com>,
nobody@not.for.email (Timothy J. Lee) writes:
> 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.
I've never tried to do it with the XFree config, but I've
been using an xmodmap line in my .xsession file for years,
with the following args in a file ~/.modmap_ctrl_lock:
!
! 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
Pretty sure that's straight out of the xmodmap man page.
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