Comments on: Turning capslock into a ctrl key http://cmalabs.com/blog/2010/04/turning-capslock-into-a-ctrl-key/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=turning-capslock-into-a-ctrl-key Technology and ideas Wed, 19 Jan 2011 05:18:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Robert Massaioli http://cmalabs.com/blog/2010/04/turning-capslock-into-a-ctrl-key/#comment-414 Robert Massaioli Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:44:11 +0000 http://cmalabs.com/blog/2010/04/turning-capslock-into-a-ctrl-key/#comment-414 This is cool but you really want to put it in the '.xmodmap' file so that it automatically runs on startup. For example, here is my .xmodmap file that swaps backspace and capslock around: robert@Shhnap:~ $ cat .xmodmap remove Lock = Caps_Lock keycode 0x16 = Caps_Lock keycode 0x42 = BackSpace add Lock = Caps_Lock This is cool but you really want to put it in the ‘.xmodmap’ file so that it automatically runs on startup. For example, here is my .xmodmap file that swaps backspace and capslock around:

robert@Shhnap:~ $ cat .xmodmap
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
keycode 0×16 = Caps_Lock
keycode 0×42 = BackSpace
add Lock = Caps_Lock

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