For any of you who have PowerBooks, you will now be able to map your CapsLock key to be Control in Linux. Starting in 2.6.24 [1], you'll be able to do:
echo 1 >/sys/module/adbhid/parameters/restore_capslock_events and then key remapping will work whether you use xmodmap or xkb. It's actually an interesting problem that a number of people have looked at (including our own Hans Fugal). The keyboards that Apple included in PowerBooks and iBooks are ADB rather than USB. ADB keyboards keep their own internal CapsLock state, rather than treating CapsLock as a normal key. An ADB keyboard only sends CapsLock events when the CapsLock is activated and deactivated, whereas a USB keyboard sends CapsLock key events whenever the key is pressed or released (just like any other key). If you want to use the CapsLock key as a Control key on a PowerBook or iBook, you have to recreate the missing key events. This is the same thing that Mac OS does if you configure it to swap caps lock and control. Now you can do the same thing on Linux, too. See http://hans.fugal.net/yodl/blosxom.cgi/mac/caps.html for more details, if you're really interested. Anyway, thanks to Hans Fugal, Andy Wingo, and Gregorio Gervas for getting it all started. [1] http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/c7e4e9cab126b0b7/6cb7c97adeac82c2 -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
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