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From: nobody@not.for.email (Timothy J. Lee)
Subject: Re: Control, CapsLock key switch
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Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 05:25:51 GMT
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David E. O'Brien <obrien@relay.nuxi.com> writes:
|Timothy J. Lee <nobody@not.for.email> wrote:
|> Thanks, but this only works in non-X.  
|
|Sorry, I thought that was what was being asked for.
|
|> When using X after this kbdcontrol, the Control and CapsLock keys are
|> still unswapped, regardless of whether the "ctrl:swapcaps" line in the
|> XF86Config is commented or uncommented.  Any ideas?
|
|   XkbOptions      "ctrl:nocaps"

I looked for the various options and tried the following three:

XkbOptions "ctrl:swapcaps"
XkbOptions "ctrl:nocaps"
XkbOptions "ctrl:ctrl_ac"

None of these three turned the CapsLock key into a Control key.

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