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

[Mariusz Gronczewski <mgronczewski@efigence.com>]

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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