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[ILUG] Swapping caps lock and control

[ILUG] Swapping caps lock and control

Liam Bedford lbedford at lbedford.org
Wed Jun 1 10:08:22 IST 2005


On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 10:30:06AM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:
> fine, so I don't need to use the workaround mentioned. However, it was 
> my understanding that as an X client, albeit a fairly large one, KDE 
> had to take what it was given from the X server. Clearly my 
> understanding of the interaction between the X server and KDE was 
> erroneous.
ever met the setxkbmap app?
or even the deprecated keymap changing stuff?

the client can change keyboard settings on the server with
impunity. At a guess, KDE and GNOME provide the service so the
user doesn't need to edit config files etc.

L.



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