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From: dsg@mbunix.mitre.org (David S. Goldberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips,comp.windows.x
Subject: Getting rid of caps lock in xdm
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Date: 6 Oct 89 18:32:07 GMT
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I have a MIPS RS2030 workstation running RISC/os 4.10 and RISCwindows
3.0, which appears to me to be fully R3.  I like the machine alot,
except for one thing: the keyboard, particularly the positioning of
the caps lock and control keys.  Once I'm logged in, I can use xmodmap
to reverse them, putting the control key where it belongs (to my
fingers :-), but I want to do the same in xdm's login window.  I've
used the translate table in Xresources to make the caps lock key have
the same effect as the control key (ie when I type control-U with what
I think should be the control key, it gives me control-U).  The
problem, is that the caps lock is turned on too.  The definition of
the translate table doesn't seem to allow remapping of modifiers.  Is
there any other way to do what I want?

Thanks in advance,

Dave Goldberg
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