Re: [1.2 installation]: how to tell X to follow swapping of control and caps lock from loadkeys
> > > What's the best way to swap the Caps Lock and left
> > > Control keys under X windows?
> >
> > It's right in the man page for xmodmap:
>
Absolutely correct...
remove lock = Caps_Lock
remove control = Control_L
keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock
add lock = Caps_Lock
add control = Control_L
Put those lines into a file, and then run 'xmodmap [file]' and the
Control_Left and Caps_Lock keys change places. With or without the
extension.
> In X Windows 3.1.2 this will work fine, but in 3.2
> you will need to disable the new XKBD extensions and
> use the old xmodmap method.
>
Doesn't mean that xmodmap doesn't work...
> The XKBD has only one problem: its very, very, *very*
> more complex than xmodmap. There isn't any HOWTO
> (yet, I hope), so I'm reading the full documentation
> ( > 300 pages!).
>
> I think there is an easy solution to these problems.
> Why simple things like writing are so complicated?
>
The extension has been around, for some time... the SGI has a "setxkeyboard"
command to load a '.xkm' file, as an example. But this is an extension
and doesn't replace the older methods of mapping the keyboard...
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