Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

2011-04-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Wednesday 06 April 2011 12:14:14 Gregory Fontenele wrote: want to leave this list but I can not, can someone erase me from this list? On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 00:37, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe switch it to just a shift key? And I really *do* like the idea of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

2011-04-06 Thread Gregory Fontenele
want to leave this list but I can not, can someone erase me from this list? On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 00:37, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe switch it to just a shift key? And I really *do* like the idea of language switch, Kfir! -- Atenciosamente, Gregory Fontenele

[gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

2011-04-06 Thread Remy Blank
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Is it possible to map the CAPSLOCK to simply nothing? I use the following: Option XkbOptions terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,caps:none -- Remy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

2011-04-06 Thread Remy Blank
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Thank you for all the nice ideas -- for some reason I like the xorg.conf method best :) And while you're at it, add the following lines to your /etc/conf.d/local.start, so that caps lock is disabled on the console, too: # Disable caps lock loadkeys EOF $(dumpkeys |

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

2011-04-06 Thread meino . cramer
Remy Blank remy.bl...@pobox.com [11-04-07 03:48]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Thank you for all the nice ideas -- for some reason I like the xorg.conf method best :) And while you're at it, add the following lines to your /etc/conf.d/local.start, so that caps lock is disabled on the

[gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

2011-04-05 Thread Hartmut Figge
meino.cra...@gmx.de: I am using a recent gentoo (updated on a nearly daily basis). For me the CAPSLOCK-function is totally useless and I want to deactivate it as soon as possible to ACCIDENTLY SWITCH ANYthing uppeRCASE. ;) For some time i a had replaced Caps_Lock with the compose key until i

[gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

2011-04-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-04-05, meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I am using a recent gentoo (updated on a nearly daily basis). For me the CAPSLOCK-function is totally useless and I want to deactivate it as soon as possible to ACCIDENTLY SWITCH ANYthing uppeRCASE. ;) Here's what I use in my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

2011-04-05 Thread Bill Longman
On 04/05/2011 12:55 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2011-04-05, meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Here's what I use in my xorg.conf to turn caps-lock into a ctrl key: Here's what I use: screwdriver :-/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

2011-04-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/05/2011 12:55 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2011-04-05, meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Here's what I use in my xorg.conf to turn caps-lock into a ctrl key: Here's what I use: screwdriver I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

2011-04-05 Thread Bill Longman
On 04/05/2011 01:27 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: I bought a $5 keyboard that was not bad, but the layout had sleep, wake, power keys between the Del/End/PgDn row and the arrow keys. In Linux, of course, the keys didn't actually do anything, but physically they still annoyed me because there should

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

2011-04-05 Thread meino . cramer
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com [11-04-06 01:02]: On 2011-04-05, meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I am using a recent gentoo (updated on a nearly daily basis). For me the CAPSLOCK-function is totally useless and I want to deactivate it as soon as possible to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

2011-04-05 Thread Bill Longman
Maybe switch it to just a shift key? And I really *do* like the idea of language switch, Kfir!