Simon TathamOct 7, 2024

I never use Caps Lock, so I disable the Caps Lock key completely with xmodmap, to avoid hitting it by accident.

Occasionally my X server gets into caps-lock state anyway. (Usually some complicated stunt was involved, like attaching x11vnc to the display remotely.) And then I can't turn it off again using the Caps Lock key.

So I wrote a tiny X client that lets me type 'xcapslock off' at a shell prompt …

… and then I had to make an alias to it, called 'XCAPSLOCK OFF'.

Show threadschuelermineOct 7, 2024
@simontatham Interesting. I have the caps lock key bound to compose in my GNOME session and it’s never been an issue for me, not when I used X and not now when I use Wayland.
Show threadschuelermine
@simontatham Although I did not manually tinker with any of the X keymap stuff. I just set compose:caps in the xkb options…
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