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How to remap Caps Lock to a specific key?

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By default I have the following key mapping:
$ xmodmap -pke
...
keycode  49 = oe OE oe OE leftdoublequotemark rightdoublequotemark leftdoublequotemark
...
keycode  66 = Caps_Lock NoSymbol Caps_Lock
...
I assigned Ctlr to keycode 66 by doing $ setxkbmap -option "ctrl:nocaps" Now I'd like to assign Caps Lock to keycode 49. I did:
$ printf "keycode  49 = Caps_Lock NoSymbol Caps_Lock" > ~/.Xmodmap
$ xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
The result was that pressing keycode 49 activates Caps Lock but pressing it again doesn't deactivate Caps Lock... How could I toggle Caps Lock by pressing keycode 49?
Asked by crocefisso (193 rep)
Sep 17, 2022, 10:23 AM
Last activity: Sep 20, 2022, 09:28 AM