Re: FVWM: Caps Lock as modifier

From: Roeland Moors <roelandmoors_at_telenet.be>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:25:34 +0100

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 08:04:24AM -0500, Jay Dobies wrote:
> I've been using FVWM for about 3 months now, and have grown quite
> accustomed to my keyboard shortcuts. In particular, I use the Windows
> Key for a ton of different things; I don't like to tie up Ctrl or Alt
> because they are used a lot by other programs I use (for instance
> IntelliJ). But I wanted to use a more standard key than Windows, in
> case I'm on a laptop and don't have one available. I don't use the
> Caps Lock for it's actual purpose, so I wanted to disable it as far as
> capital letters is concerned and instead use it as a modifier. I think
> I have used it as a modifier before (I'd have to dig through backup
> copies of .fvwm2rc), but how can I disable it such that it won't make
> my letters capital?

Place this line in your XF86Config file where you define you
keyboard:

Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"

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Roeland
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Received on Mon Nov 29 2004 - 07:21:39 GMT

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