Re: Making keyboard remap changes permanent without reboot.
On Wed 10 Sep 2014 at 20:02:04 +0300, Alexandros Prekates wrote:
> My system is Debian stable with xfce.
>
> Wanting to swap CAPSLOCK with CONTROL i changed /etc/default/keyboard
> and following debian wiki page on keyboard i executed:
>
> sudo udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=change
>
> It worked! But .. after some minutes the swap is reverted back to the
> initial config withoud doing sth.
How many minutes? If you don't touch the keyboard for x minutes has the
reversion taken place in that time? Or is it only "some minutes" after
touching the keyboard?
> How can that be avoided?
By discovering what is on your system that causes the change. :)
You could start by considering Xfce as a cause. Install a smallish
window manager like fvwm. Log in to it and test. Do you get the same
behaviour?
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