Subject: Re: x-windows and caps lock
To: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
From: Wayne Berke <berke@panix.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/24/1995 07:54:10
In message <199502240556.AAA14113@picard.cmf.nrl.navy.mil>, Ken Hornstein write
s:
> >Does anyone know of a simple way to get the caps lock LED to be
> >toggled only when I hit the control key (which is mapped under
> >x-windows to behave like the cap-lock key ) ?
>
> It's not simple, but I don't think it would be very hard to hack pccons to
> switch the meaning of caps lock and control around. That way it would solve
> the LED problem, and it would work from the console as well.
>
Apparently not all keyboards need this drastic fix. My caps_lock LED follows
whatever key it's been mapped to by xmodmap. I'm using the Microsoft
split-keyboard.