[PLUG] Turning off caps-lock
Rich Shepard
rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Thu Jan 16 13:58:02 UTC 2003
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Timothy Grant wrote:
> I generally use keymap to swap ctrl and caps-lock in my terminals and the X
> setting to swap them in X. This works really well. However, on my new
> notebook for some-reason I keep hitting the control key and turning on
> caps-lock.
So? You can't install keymap and xmodkeys on your laptop, too?
> Since caps-lock was a stupid idea in the first place, I'm quite happy to
> completely lose that functionality. I'm sure there's a way to just turn
> caps-lock completely off. I just don't know what it is.
I know a bunch of people who think the same. Every letter in their e-mails
is in lower case. That's cute if you're pre-pubescent, but not when you're
in your 30's or 50's.
Regardless, have you tried redefining that keycode as 0?
Rich
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