Re: odd caps lock behavior
Re: odd caps lock behavior
- Subject: Re: odd caps lock behavior
- From: Toby Sargeant <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 00:40:46 +1100
Richard E. Silverman:
I'd like to swap the caps lock and control keys, as Unix geeks
commonly do.
The usual xmodmap incantation for this is:
<...>
Somehow, despite this fact, caps locks works properly when mapped onto
the
usual key. When moved elsewhere, however (as by the foregoing xmodmap
script), things behave as you'd expect given the event sequence above:
in
effect you have no caps lock, because the X server believes you always
release
it immediately, and it's never "held down."
Sadly, this is a ``problem'' with the Apple keyboard hardware, and it's
been a
bugbear of Linux PPC users for a very long time, where exactly the same
thing
happens. (So it's not fair to blame X11 in this case -- especially as
the
Linux and OSX XServers are essentially the same beast, afaik)
The solution in Linux land is a kernel patch.
I believe that there's a kext for Darwin that allows you to pretty much
arbitrarily remap keys (among other features), and this is the way to
swap ctrl and capslock for OSX.
One day keyboard manufacturers will realise the error of their ways and
start
putting ctrl and capslock in their rightful places. Until then, these
are the
droids you're looking for:
http://www.gnufoo.org/ucontrol/ucontrol.html
Cheers,
Toby.
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