[xmodmap] Problem with e and n

Dirk Wallenstein halsmit at t-online.de
Tue Nov 24 01:58:16 PST 2009


On Monday 23 November 2009 23:15:21 walt wrote:
> On 11/23/2009 02:04 AM, Dirk Wallenstein wrote:
> > On Sunday 22 November 2009 23:35:29 walt wrote:
> >> I've mapped my CapsLock key to a plain Shift_L key, using your instructions.
> >> Here is the output of xev (note the keycode is 66):
> >>
> >> KeyPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x2000001,
> >>       root 0x189, subw 0x0, time 35504647, (136,79), root:(140,822),
> >>       state 0x0, keycode 66 (keysym 0xffe1, Shift_L), same_screen YES,
> >>       XKeysymToKeycode returns keycode: 50
> >>       XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
> >>       XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
> >>       XFilterEvent returns: False
> >>
> >> That part is wonderful, but pressing the Caps Lock key doesn't create upper
> >> case letters, but pressing the Shift key does.
> >>
> >> Here is the line that I changed in the .xkb file:
> >>       key<CAPS>  {         [         Shift_L ] };
> >>
> >> What have I missed?
> >
> >
> > For modifiers, you have to change the modifier_map entry.
> >
> > Currently, it will look like this:
> >      modifier_map Lock {<CAPS>  };
> >
> > Change it to:
> >      modifier_map Shift {<CAPS>  };
> 
> Yes!  The wicked CapsLock witch is dead :o)  Thank you.
> 
> BTW, I was able to modify the default pc101 easily enough in duttulm to my
> desired configuration, but now I have the resulting XML file in ~/.duttulm
> and I don't know what to do with it.  What comes next?

Nothing, yet, I'm afraid. Duttulm is under development and it will
take some time until it is ready. But then, you will be able to do the
reconfiguration you did, and much more, through a nice GUI.






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