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From: nobody@not.for.email (Timothy J. Lee)
Subject: Re: Control, CapsLock key switch
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espel@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr (Roger Espel Llima) writes:
|Try something like this:  xmodmap .modmap
|where .modmap contains
|
|clear Lock
|clear Control
|add Control = Caps_Lock
|add Lock = Control_L
|
|I have a similar setup, except that I have both capslock and control
|acting like control keys.

Thanks.  This works.

Actually, I decided to just make them both Control keys, like your
setup.  I don't recall intentionally using the CapsLock key in years.

Which brings up the question...  why are keyboards now made with the
CapsLock key (rarely used except accidentally) where the Control key
used to be, while the frequently used Control key is put in the more
difficult to reach position?

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