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Re: Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work

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On Sat 16 Sep 2017 at 19:45:50 (+1000), Erik Christiansen wrote:
> On 15.09.17 08:48, Peter Smith wrote:
> > P.S.: I actually was able to change the keyboard layout later on by
> > the Gnome Tweak tool, but nevertheless I do not unterstand why the
> > official information does not work and it should be rectified.
> 
> It is depressing to see the linux community succumb to unwarranted
> creeping complexity. For nearly two decades, this has done it for me:
> 
> $ more ~/.Xmodmap 
> keycode 0x42 =  Escape
> clear Lock
> 
> That's consulted as X fires up, so if you copy your useful dot-files
> across upgrades and reinstalls, it's done from here on out.

… which is a bit late for me. OTOH if one follows the wiki and
edits XKBOPTIONS in /etc/default/keyboard, the Caps Lock will
behave as ESC in the linux console as well as X.
(Of course, I don't use Gnome.)

XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="gb"
XKBVARIANT=""
XKBOPTIONS="caps:escape,compose:menu,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
BACKSPACE="guess"

Cheers,
David.

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Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard  advice does not work Peter Smith <peter.smith3102@gmail.com> - 2017-09-15 09:10 +0200
  Re: Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem:  https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-09-15 09:20 +0200
  Re: Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem:  https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work Mariusz Gronczewski <mgronczewski@efigence.com> - 2017-09-15 10:40 +0200
    Re: Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem:  https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-09-15 11:10 +0200
  Re: Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem:  https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-09-15 13:20 +0200
  Re: Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem:  https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2017-09-16 11:50 +0200
    Re: Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem:  https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-09-24 06:20 +0200

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