On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 4:42 PM Selim T. Erdoğan <se...@alumni.cs.utexas.edu> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 06:16:32PM -0500, Boyan Penkov wrote: > > I am now writing my thesis, and have the genesis of some pretty > > significant EMACs pinky. (I use my left pinky for the left ctrl most > > of the time, which is setting me up for failure.). > > > > To this end, I’d like to disable the left ctrl key only, and force > > my brain to use the right one. Better yet, I’d like the screen to > > flash or something then I inadvertently hit left-ctrl. > > Have you tried making the Caps Lock key function as a Ctrl key? > It makes things much easier on pinkies.
This is the only valid answer and is often easy to do in Linux (Gnome Tweaks has a simple checkbox for this). I have to do it on every computer I use with a PC keyboard. On a *real* computer, the control key is placed in a sensible location, see for example http://xahlee.info/kbd/i/kb/sun_keyboard_left.jpg or https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Amiga_1200_Nahaufnahme.jpg I would like to have a long talk in a locked room with the person who thought that HEY IM AN IMPORTANT MANAGER AND I ALWAYS TYPE IN CAPS SO LETS PUT CAPS LOCK IN THE MOST PROMINENT POSITION.