swap caps lock and control in X

[Jason Gilbert]

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On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 11:57:19AM -0500, Rene Salmon wrote:
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> Thanks for the reply but that does not seem to work on my PBook G4.
> Adding the 'Option XkbOptions "ctrl:swapcaps"' line or "nocaps" just=20
> gets rid of the capslock but does not replace it with Control.
>=20
> I am running fedora so maybe it a bug.

that's the same behaviour i get. i think it's a choice made with the
apple hardware. if you run xev you can actually the see the
KeyPress/KeyRelease events coming one after another when you hold the
key down. if caps is on, then both events come when you release the key.

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