Awesome. I added this to my .Xmodmap in my /home dir... ! Swap Caps_Lock and Control_L ! remove Lock = Caps_Lock keysym Escape = Caps_Lock keysym Caps_Lock = Escape add Lock = Caps_Lock
... and it worked after I typed 'xmodmap .Xmodmap'. Will X read this file on start up each time? Or do I have to tell it to? Thanks, Rob. Stephen A. Witt said these things on 20001024.1519: | On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Rob Hudson wrote: | | > I'm a big vim user and would like to switch the functionality of the | > Caps_Lock key and the Escape key. I have found where to do this in | > the console. Which file to I edit to swap these in X? | > | | Well, one way you can probably do it is with the xmodmap program. I use it | to remap the caps lock key and the control key for emacs. xmodmap is part | of the xbase-clients package. | |