On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Jonathan Thornburg <jth...@astro.indiana.edu> wrote: > I've just installed 5.0/amd64 (from the CD set) on a Lenovo Thinkpad T60 > laptop (dmesg below). I'm not running xdm; I normally use this system > by logging in at the console, then typing "startx&;logout" to start X. > My .xinitrc (given in full below) contains (among other things) the > section > > # make Caps Lock key be another control key > xmodmap - <<'EOF' > remove Lock = Caps_Lock > add Control = Caps_Lock > !! Swap Caps_Lock and Control_L (adapted from the xmodmap(1) man page) > !!remove Lock = Caps_Lock > !!remove Control = Control_L > !!keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock > !!keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L > !!add Lock = Caps_Lock > !!add Control = Control_L > EOF > > to make the "Caps Lock" key be a(nother) control key. For OpenBSD 4.9 > and earlier (on both this and other laptops), this worked fine. But as > of my newly-installed 5.0-release, this seems to be a no-op: "Caps Lock" > stays a caps-lock key. > > My basic question is, what's wrong and what can/should I do about it?
You also need to change the keysym on the key and not just the modifier. I.e., your xmodmap input needs to be: remove Lock = Caps_Lock keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L add control = Control_L Philip Guenther
