On 05/05/2011 07:43 AM, Michael Chase-Salerno wrote:
On 05/05/2011 07:34 AM, Sean Dague wrote:
And lastly, again from the pre meeting and dinner, you can turn your
Caplock into another modifier key that you can use for shortcuts instead
of just MAKING YOU SOUND LIKE A CRAZY PERSON ON THE INTERNET.
Create a file called .Xmodmap in your home directory and make it
contain:
! No Caps Lock
clear lock
! Caps Lock as Hyper key (doesn't exist on most keyboards)
keycode 0x42 = Hyper_L
remove mod4 = Hyper_L
remove mod3 = Hyper_L
add mod3 = Hyper_L
Then run "xmodmap .Xmodmap" and it will take. When X starts it will load
this file for you by default, so you only need to do this if you don't
want to log out and back in again the first time you change it.
-Sean
This is also available via "System->Preferences->Keyboard->Layouts"
then the "Options..." button. There's a Caps Lock section there, and a
bunch of other things as well. Some of the CapsLock options are hidden
under the other keys too, for example, if you want to make CapsLock an
additional Ctrl, it's under the CtrlKey section.
Mike
There are a bunch of options there, too. I highly recommend that
everybody play with reassigning CapsLock to something even if you're not
annoyed by it's existence. I've switched caps and esc on all of my comps
and it has sped up my work flow amazingly. Now I just have to find out
if I can map esc to hyper...
/thor
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