[gentoo-user] How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

[gentoo-user] How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

[meino.cramer]

Hi,

I am using a recent gentoo (updated on a nearly daily basis).
For me the CAPSLOCK-function is totally useless and I want
to deactivate it as soon as possible to ACCIDENTLY SWITCH
ANYthing uppeRCASE. ;)

Is there any way to acchieve this -- it would greatly improve
my typing...

Thank you very much for any help in advance!
Best regards
mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Tuesday 05 April 2011 20:46:40 meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using a recent gentoo (updated on a nearly daily basis).
> For me the CAPSLOCK-function is totally useless and I want
> to deactivate it as soon as possible to ACCIDENTLY SWITCH
> ANYthing uppeRCASE. ;)
> 
> Is there any way to acchieve this -- it would greatly improve
> my typing...
> 
> Thank you very much for any help in advance!
> Best regards
> mcc

you can euther edit the keyboard description you are using or you can use 
xmodmap and map whatever you want unto caps lock-.

[gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

[Hartmut Figge]

meino.cramer@gmx.de:

> I am using a recent gentoo (updated on a nearly daily basis).
> For me the CAPSLOCK-function is totally useless and I want
> to deactivate it as soon as possible to ACCIDENTLY SWITCH
> ANYthing uppeRCASE. ;)

For some time i a had replaced Caps_Lock with the compose key until i
missed it in Gothic 2. ;)

Section "InputDevice"
[...]
# Option    "XkbOptions"  "compose:caps"
EndSection

> Is there any way to acchieve this -- it would greatly improve
> my typing...

Should be possible after some investigation. Perhaps somebody knows
already. :)

Hartmut
-- 
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Von Usern fuer User  :-)

[gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2011-04-05, meino.cramer@gmx.de <meino.cramer@gmx.de> wrote:

> I am using a recent gentoo (updated on a nearly daily basis).
> For me the CAPSLOCK-function is totally useless and I want
> to deactivate it as soon as possible to ACCIDENTLY SWITCH
> ANYthing uppeRCASE. ;)

Here's what I use in my xorg.conf to turn "caps-lock" into a "ctrl"
key:

    Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "keyboard-all"
        Driver "evdev"
        Option "XkbOptions"  "ctrl:nocaps,compose:ralt,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
    EndSection

It also turns the right-hand ALT key into a compose key and enables
ctrl-alt-backspace as the termination sequence for the X server.

-- 
Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! WHOA!!  Ken and Barbie
                                  at               are having TOO MUCH FUN!!
                              gmail.com            It must be the NEGATIVE
                                                   IONS!!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

[Bill Longman]

On 04/05/2011 12:55 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2011-04-05, meino.cramer@gmx.de <meino.cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
> Here's what I use in my xorg.conf to turn "caps-lock" into a "ctrl"
> key:

Here's what I use:

screwdriver

:-/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

[Paul Hartman]

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Bill Longman <bill.longman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/05/2011 12:55 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2011-04-05, meino.cramer@gmx.de <meino.cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Here's what I use in my xorg.conf to turn "caps-lock" into a "ctrl"
>> key:
>
> Here's what I use:
>
> screwdriver

I bought a $5 keyboard that was not bad, but the layout had "sleep",
"wake", "power" keys between the Del/End/PgDn row and the arrow keys.
In Linux, of course, the keys didn't actually do anything, but
physically they still annoyed me because there should not be keys
there! So I remove them with a screwdriver. :)

I can't imagine using it if those keys actually shutdown the machine.
Such a horrible placement.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

[Bill Longman]

On 04/05/2011 01:27 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
> I bought a $5 keyboard that was not bad, but the layout had "sleep",
> "wake", "power" keys between the Del/End/PgDn row and the arrow keys.
> In Linux, of course, the keys didn't actually do anything, but
> physically they still annoyed me because there should not be keys
> there! So I remove them with a screwdriver. :)
> 
> I can't imagine using it if those keys actually shutdown the machine.
> Such a horrible placement.

I have this brain-dead HP keyboard that has this:

+----+  +-----+
|Ins |  |Pause|
+----+  +-----+

+----+  +-----+
|Home|  | End |
+----+  +-----+
+----+  +-----+
|    |  |PgUp |
|    |  +-----+
|Del |  +-----+
|    |  |PgDn |
+----+  +-----+

above the direction keys. It's such a PITA...keep away.

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

[Kfir Lavi]

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On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 9:46 PM, <meino.cramer@gmx.de> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I am using a recent gentoo (updated on a nearly daily basis).
> For me the CAPSLOCK-function is totally useless and I want
> to deactivate it as soon as possible to ACCIDENTLY SWITCH
> ANYthing uppeRCASE. ;)
>
> Is there any way to acchieve this -- it would greatly improve
> my typing...
>
> Thank you very much for any help in advance!
> Best regards
> mcc
>
>
> I'm using CAPS to switch from English to Hebrew. I don't use xorg.conf to
do it.
I use  this commands in the startup script of fluxbox:
setxkbmap -option &
setxkbmap -option grp:switch,grp:caps_toggle,grp_led:scroll us,il &

So you can use setxkbmap to check configuration and then apply it to
xorg.conf.

Regards,
Kfir

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

[meino.cramer]

Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> [11-04-06 01:02]:
> On 2011-04-05, meino.cramer@gmx.de <meino.cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > I am using a recent gentoo (updated on a nearly daily basis).
> > For me the CAPSLOCK-function is totally useless and I want
> > to deactivate it as soon as possible to ACCIDENTLY SWITCH
> > ANYthing uppeRCASE. ;)
> 
> Here's what I use in my xorg.conf to turn "caps-lock" into a "ctrl"
> key:
> 
>     Section "InputClass"
>         Identifier "keyboard-all"
>         Driver "evdev"
>         Option "XkbOptions"  "ctrl:nocaps,compose:ralt,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
>         MatchIsKeyboard "on"
>     EndSection
> 
> It also turns the right-hand ALT key into a compose key and enables
> ctrl-alt-backspace as the termination sequence for the X server.
> 
> -- 
> Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! WHOA!!  Ken and Barbie
>                                   at               are having TOO MUCH FUN!!
>                               gmail.com            It must be the NEGATIVE
>                                                    IONS!!
> 
> 

Thank you for all the nice ideas  --  for some reason I like the
xorg.conf method best :)

Is it possible to map the CAPSLOCK to simply nothing?

Best regards
mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

[Bill Longman]

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Maybe switch it to just a shift key?

And I really *do* like the idea of language switch, Kfir!

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

[Gregory Fontenele]

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want to leave this list but I can not, can someone erase me from this list?

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 00:37, Bill Longman <bill.longman@gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe switch it to just a shift key?
>
> And I really *do* like the idea of language switch, Kfir!
>
>


-- 
Atenciosamente,
Gregory Fontenele

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[gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

[Remy Blank]

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meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> Is it possible to map the CAPSLOCK to simply nothing?

I use the following:

  Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,caps:none"

-- Remy


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[gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

[Remy Blank]

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meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> Thank you for all the nice ideas  --  for some reason I like the
> xorg.conf method best :)

And while you're at it, add the following lines to your
/etc/conf.d/local.start, so that caps lock is disabled on the console, too:

# Disable caps lock
loadkeys <<EOF
$(dumpkeys | head -n 1)
keycode 58 =
EOF

-- Remy


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

[meino.cramer]

Remy Blank <remy.blank@pobox.com> [11-04-07 03:48]:
> meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> > Thank you for all the nice ideas  --  for some reason I like the
> > xorg.conf method best :)
> 
> And while you're at it, add the following lines to your
> /etc/conf.d/local.start, so that caps lock is disabled on the console, too:
> 
> # Disable caps lock
> loadkeys <<EOF
> $(dumpkeys | head -n 1)
> keycode 58 =
> EOF
> 
> -- Remy
> 

Thanks a lot for all your help ! :)

It is so much better without this CAPSLOCK...

Best regards
mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Wednesday 06 April 2011 12:14:14 Gregory Fontenele wrote:
> want to leave this list but I can not, can someone erase me from this list?
> 
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 00:37, Bill Longman <bill.longman@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Maybe switch it to just a shift key?
> > 
> > And I really *do* like the idea of language switch, Kfir!

read the fucking header OR go to gentoo.org and look at the site about mailing 
lists. All the instructions are there.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

[Bill Longman]

On 04/07/2011 11:18 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 April 2011 12:14:14 Gregory Fontenele wrote:
>> want to leave this list but I can not, can someone erase me from this list?
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 00:37, Bill Longman <bill.longman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Maybe switch it to just a shift key?
>>>
>>> And I really *do* like the idea of language switch, Kfir!
> 
> read the fucking header OR go to gentoo.org and look at the site about mailing 
> lists. All the instructions are there.
> 

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