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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 Fri, 15 Sep 2017 08:48:21 +0200, Peter Smith <peter.smith3102@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have tried to change the behavior of the CapsLock key to make it an
> additional Escape key. In order to do this I read the advice on
> https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard
> 
> Specifically I did:
> I changed the file /etc/default/keyboard to:
> 
> XKBLAYOUT="us,at"
> XKBVARIANT=","
> BACKSPACE="guess"
> XKBMODEL="pc105"
> XKBOPTIONS="caps:escape"
> 
>

I did it by xmodmap, just to different key than escape:


keycode 66= Hyper_L

then just load xmodmap via xmodmap filename


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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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