[ILUG] Swapping caps lock and control

[Paul Jakma]

On Mon, 30 May 2005, Niall O Broin wrote:

> Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
>
> in my xorg.conf but it behaves VERY oddly - when the box is at the 
> kdm prompt, the keys are swapped, but as soon as I've logged into 
> KDE they are unswapped again. Any ideas?

Go into your GNOME preferences and open the keyboard preferences 
dialogue. oh wait..

Personally, i have following in ~/.bashrc:

# got X?
if [ -n "${DISPLAY}" ] ; then
         # check XKB swapcaps setting, set if not
         if ! ( eval setxkbmap -print | grep swapcaps > /dev/null ) ; 
then
                  setxkbmap -option ctrl:swapcaps
         fi
fi
if [ -x /sbin/consoletype -a -x /bin/loadkeys ] \
    && /sbin/consoletype > /dev/null -a -f /etc/sysconfig/keyboard ; 
then
         . /etc/sysconfig/keyboard
         /bin/loadkeys << EOF
include "/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/${KEYTABLE}.map.gz"
keycode  58 = Control
keycode  29 = Caps_Lock
EOF
fi

Note the console thing is /not/ permanent, unless you undo it with 
logout script. The X thing will work remotely (eg if you borrow 
someone's machine and ssh home).

regards,
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