Make Capslock a normal Caps (Was: Caps Lock indicator panel plugin)

[Renaud OLGIATI (Ron)]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:39:55 +0000
killermoehre at gmx.net wrote:

> >> If you don't use the Caps Lock function at all, you can always change it to
> >> perform like normal Upper Case.  

> > How do you do that ?

> This is done via xmodmap(1), which is called during the login (/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc).
> printf 'remove Lock = Caps_Lock\nkeysym Caps_Lock = Shift_L\nadd Lock = Caps_Lock' >> $HOME/.Xmodmap

Thanks; and in between time I found another way; as root:

# cat 'setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps" >> /etc/profile
 
Cheers,
 
Ron.
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