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From: jim@baroque.Stanford.EDU (James Helman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: CAPS LOCK <==> CONTROL hack?
Message-ID: <JIM.90Oct16103312@baroque.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 16 Oct 90 17:33:12 GMT
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In-reply-to: chrisa@beldar.ma30.bull.com's message of 16 Oct 90 13:36:15 GMT


   Being a user of several computers, all of which have their CONTROL key
   where the Iris puts its CAPSLOCK and vice versa, I would be most
   grateful to discover a hack for my user.ps (or whatever) which would
   permit them to be exchanged.

I don't know about NeWS, but under X, just about any keyboard
reconfiguration you want can be done with xmodmap.  "xmodmap -pk"
prints out the full keyboard table.  See xmodmap(1) for more details.

Here are some possibilities

    # clear the lock keys
    xmodmap -e 'clear lock'

    # make caps lock another control key
    xmodmap -e 'add control = Caps_Lock'

    # change backspace key to send delete/backspace
    xmodmap -e 'keycode 66 = Delete BackSpace'

    #change `/~ key to send  escape/~
    xmodmap -e 'keycode 60 = Escape asciitilde'

    #change <esc> key to send `/~
    xmodmap -e 'keycode 12 = grave asciitilde'

Jim Helman
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