Re: Making CAPS LOCK another CTRL key in the console

2011-01-04 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 08:49:05 -0500, "Gabriel L. Somlo" wrote: > I personally use > > setxkbmap -option ctrl:swapcaps > > However, I believe the OP was asking about whether it's possible to > swap Control and CapsLock for the console, outside/before X, so that > the change is available syst

Re: Making CAPS LOCK another CTRL key in the console

2011-01-04 Thread Todd Zullinger
Bernie Innocenti wrote: > In Debian & Ubuntu, this can be done by setting XKBOPTIONS=ctrl:nocaps > in /etc/default/console-setup. [...] > So, what's the moral equivalent of this in Fedora? I have something like this in my puppet configuration: zcat /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.map.gz | \

Re: Making CAPS LOCK another CTRL key in the console

2011-01-04 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Keyboard layout definitions are hell to maintain. There are too many locales, and most of them are not finished yet unicode side (aside from the continuous monetary symbol churn, even "big" "simple" latin languages like German had changes in the recent years). Therefore, the only sustainable solut

Re: Making CAPS LOCK another CTRL key in the console

2011-01-04 Thread Gabriel L. Somlo
I personally use setxkbmap -option ctrl:swapcaps However, I believe the OP was asking about whether it's possible to swap Control and CapsLock for the console, outside/before X, so that the change is available system-wide, regardless of which virtual console one happens to be using at th

Re: Making CAPS LOCK another CTRL key in the console

2011-01-04 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 03:47:25PM -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > The gnome utility for keyboard can map Capslock to Control (as > god/Sun intended). Does this really work for anyone else? I tried fiddling with Keyboard Preferences -> Layouts -> Options -> {Caps Lock key behaviour, Ctrl key

Re: Making CAPS LOCK another CTRL key in the console

2011-01-03 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 15:20, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > In Debian & Ubuntu, this can be done by setting XKBOPTIONS=ctrl:nocaps > in /etc/default/console-setup. > > A program called ckbcomp compiles a keymap file which contains this > line: > >  keycode 58 = Control Control Control Control Control

Making CAPS LOCK another CTRL key in the console

2011-01-03 Thread Bernie Innocenti
In Debian & Ubuntu, this can be done by setting XKBOPTIONS=ctrl:nocaps in /etc/default/console-setup. A program called ckbcomp compiles a keymap file which contains this line: keycode 58 = Control Control Control Control Control Control Control Control Control Control Control Control Control Co