Questions tagged [capslock]
Button on keyboard that locking all text typed to device to capital text.
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Bash script not working as required with xbindkeys
I made a simple bash script to display a notification whenever my capslock key is pressed. It works fine when I call it like bash capsnotify.sh.
The problem now is when I bind my above script to ...
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Caps lock not working properly
I'm an AZERTY user, so to type numbers without using the num pad we need to use Caps lock/shift and the same thing for a lot of other special characters.
So I realized that on Ubuntu, caps lock is ...
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Mapping caps to ctrl doesn't work
I decided I want to have my caps-lock key behave as ctrl key, so I added XKBOPTIONS="caps:ctrl_modifier" to my /etc/defaults/keyboard file.
This file as of now has these contents:
XKBMODEL="pc105"
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Caps Lock is turned off when i change the language
Pretty self explanatory question. Does anyone know why this is happening? I am using 16.04 with English and Greek languages. When I am changing the language on the keyboard, caps lock is turned off, ...
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remap caps lock to right alt
I've had a look at other questions, as well as the xkb options list (/usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/xorg.lst), but can't seem to find a way to map the caps lock key to act as another right alt key.
(On a ...
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How can I make CAPS LOCK act like the caps lock key on a mac?
For those of you who don't know, the ways the CAPS key on mac works as follows: when you activate the CAPS key, it sends a continuous pulse. On linux (and windows), it only sends one pulse to turn it ...
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lock-keys-applet alternative for Kubuntu
Is there any lock-keys-applet alternative to kubuntu. I just want some indication whenever I use caps lock or num lock key. I am using dell inspiron n5010 laptop and it does not have inbuilt indicator....
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Remapped CapsLock key is ignored (set by XKBOPTIONS in /etc/default/keyboard)
I tried to follow https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MovingTheCtrlKey which says this can be done this way:
On Debian and derivatives (Ubuntu, Mint etc.)
To make Caps Lock another Ctrl key, edit the ...
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Disable numlock at startup? Ubuntu 16.04 xkboptions
The numlock and capslock keyboard light toggling crashes my computer (this is not the subject of the question). I am trying to deactivate these two keys at startup. I modified the /etc/default/...
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Swapping Caps Lock and Ctrl PROBLEM
I have tried a few different ways to remap ctrl and caps lock and none of them seem to be working. I am running Ubuntu on a Mac through VirtualBox. The two methods I have tried are using
gnome-tweak-...
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How to get caps and num lock lights to show when in console
I have recently noticed something rather annoying, when in console (in one of the TTYs), if I press the caps lock key, the little light which normally lights up to show me that it is, does not, nor ...
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Caps lock indicator is ON after wake up [duplicate]
Caps lock keyboard indicator is ON after waking up from suspension, but in fact it is turned OFF. So I have to press the CAPS LOCK button twice to make it normal. So the problem is with indicator only,...
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WHy CAps lock is too slow to turn off in Ubuntu? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why does turning Caps Lock off take such a long time to work?
THis is a strange problem. NOtice how the beginning of my sentences include two capitals? Well, over the years ...
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No keyboard layout switch after reboot
Since the "Applications -> Settings -> XFCE Settings Manager -> Keyboard" dialogue does not allow to assign a new key for the "Change keyboard layout" action, I have added ...
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Why is my Caps Lock not working as Ctrl?
I am on a Lenovo W500 with German keyboard layout. I use Ubuntu 12.10 and have configured my keyboard layout to use the Caps Lock as Ctrl. But it does not work. I even tried to reboot my system.
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Caps Lock does not capitalize accented letters on AZERTY keyboard
I've just upgraded to Ubuntu 23.10 and my Caps Lock key does not work as it is supposed to. Before the update, when CAPS LOCK was on, I could get capital accented letters by just hitting é, à, ç, etc. ...
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How to prevent xkbmap reset?
I use two keyboard layout, and I use CapsLock to switch to the first layout, and Shift+CapsLock to switch to the second. To do that I use the following command:
setxkbmap -option grp:...
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Why do I have to have CapsLock permanently ON
Initially, I believed this was on OpenOffice problem but Abiword and, indeed, Gedit, display the same problem, so it must be an Ubuntu glitch.
I was typing a document and used CapsLock when creating ...
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How do I get xcape to work correctly on Ubuntu 22.04?
I'm a vim/nvim user, and xcape has become for me a key feature in the last years.
I use it in combination with gnome-tweaks (new package name, on previous version was gnome-tweak-tool) in order to:
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I need to know when the "Caps Lock " key is turned on/off [duplicate]
I need to know when the "Caps Lock " key is turned on.
Does Ubuntu has a visual indicator to show me when the key "Caps Lock" is on?
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Booting ends with blinking caps lock indicator light on a Packard Bell mb87 [closed]
After a clean install of Ubuntu 11.10, I have been faced with a crash several times. When I push the computer's power button,it starts to boot as usual, but suddenly it freezes and all I see is a pink ...
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"Caps Lock on" message is shown for too long. How can I make it disappear sooner?
The "Caps Lock on" warning message is shown for too much time on Ubuntu 11.04.
Could anyone tell me how can I reduce the time this message is displayed for, please?
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Remapping Caps Lock to the 'backslash' character [duplicate]
As I am writing a lot of LaTeX, I'd like the CapsLock key to instead print a \ (AltGr+8 on my keyboard). I am running Ubuntu 23.10.
I installed gnome-tweaks, which allowed me to remap Caps Lock to ...
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Capslock as Escape Key hold vs press behavior
I would like to know if it's possible to map CapsLock as Escape key when tapping but behave as a Super key if hold.
This is a behavior I manage to do in MacOS with Karabiner but I haven't been able to ...
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Caps-Lock as Control no longer triggers reliably after upgrade to 20.04 (Lenovo UK keyboard layout)
Some years ago I mapped CapsLock to control to help treat a repetitive strain injury. This stopped working after updating to Ubuntu 12.04. For example, to paste in the terminal, one types shift+...
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How to persistently map Capslock to ESC and Ctrl so that it still works after suspend/resume
I'm using the following lines in my ~/.xprofile on Ubuntu 20.04 to map Capslock to ESC and Ctrl:
# make CapsLock behave like Ctrl:
setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps
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Why does my caps lock to escape mapping disappear when I use a USB switch?
I have been using this method to map caps lock to escape in Ubuntu 20.04, and it has worked flawlessly so far.
However, I recently bought a USB switch to switch between controlling two computers with ...
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xmodmap Mode_switch for different layouts
I need to add the same "Mode_switch layer" triggered by Caps_Lock for both layouts: EN and RU.
Specifically,
both Caps_Lock + h and Capd_Lock + р (Cyrillic_er) should lead to Left;
both ...
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Casp to Escape mapping gets reverted behind the scenes
On 20.04 LTS, pretty vanilla setup, I've successfully managed to remap caps to escape using gnome-tweaks... except it doesn't stick. Something unknown to me reverses the setting after a few hours or ...
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Change Caps Lock to Left Shift+Ctrl in Xubuntu
I want that pressing Caps lock behave the same as pressing Left Shift+Ctrl within Xubuntu. I use these two a lot as modifiers in conjunction with other keys. The only things I find are switching Caps ...
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Toggle caps lock LED on ThinkPad T43 - Ubuntu Server 16.04
I have installed the above mentioned OS on a 15-year old IBM Thinkbad (t-43 / 1871 series).
I only care about the CAPS lock LED. Don't care about the others. Have reviewed some basic topics ...
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ubuntu 18.04 dell XPS caps lock sticks
I don't know if this is a hardware or software problem, but with my new Dell XPS 13, I find that the caps-lock sticks in the on position and I can't turn it off. Is there a way to prevent caps-...
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Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS freezes after changing keyboard layout two times and black screen after pressing CAPSLOCK
Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS w/ 11 november 18 updates freezes after changing keyboard layout two times (super + space) and black screen after pressing CAPSLOCK two times. System can be shutdown only by ...
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Remapping CAPS_LOCK on Ubuntu 18.04
I would like to do the following with my CAPS_LOCK key:
Remap CAPS_LOCK+h to the left arrow key
Remap CAPS_LOCK+j to the down arrow key, etc
Allow CAPS_LOCK to STAY as a CAPS_LOCK key if it's just ...
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Keyboard option shift:both_caps not taking effect on console
I am trying to get both shift keys pressed together to act as caps lock on the console in Xubuntu 18.04. On recent Debian/Ubuntus, /etc/default/keyboard can be used to configure the keyboard both for ...
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Caps lock stopped working after an update
For some reason, Caps Lock stopped working on my machine. Not only on the laptop keyboard, but on any connected keyboard as well. I'm using 18.04 on a Dell XPS 15 9560.
It worked perfectly until a ...
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Map Caps Lock to delete whole word
I used dconf-editor to map caps lock to backspace, which works fine.
i.e. ['caps:backspace']
But I'd like to map caps lock to ctrl_backspace, so that it deletes the whole word when pressed.
Is this ...
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How to set Level3_Shift to Caps Lock AND Compose to Caps Lock+Ctrl in XFCE?
I switched from SUSE recently, which uses KDE as a default desktop environment. In KDE, it is possible to archieve such a setup with GUI options, but not in XFCE.
I've tried set up the ~/.Xmodmap ...
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Caps LOCk DElay Ubuntu 17.10
This issue hasn't been mentioned.
Investigating further, using this script listed here
Caps Lock delay
was able to fix the issue on Ubuntu 17.04 but on 17.10 I get this error in the TERminal
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Remap CapsLock key to be Control + Shift + Alt + Super
When I was using OS X I remapped my CapsLock to HyperKey which was a new modifier key. It worked like combination of Control + Shift + Alt + Super.
Is it possible in Ubuntu 16.10?
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caps lock doesn't work while on Hebrew
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 on a Lenovo-510s.
installed Hebrew keyboard.
when I'm in English everything work fine with the caps lock but when im switching to Hebrew so the caps lock stop working.
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Keyboard layout switch troubles after 16.04.1 upgrade
I recently updated from 14.04.4 to 16.04.1. I expected there will be some problems (and there were), but the one I wasn't able to solve so far is keyboard layout switcher behaves wrong.
I use Gnome ...
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Why can I not use the CAPS LOCK key when typing in my system's GUI?
I am running Ubuntu GNOME 15.10 with GNOME 3.18, and recently (after changing my password) the caps lock has suddenly not been working, now, I haven't yet noticed whether or not it is for everything ...
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How to remap CapsLock to ctrl+c (copy) and Esc to ctrl+v (paste)?
I am running Xfce under Xubuntu 14.04, 32-bit.
My finger are arthritic/stiff, so that I must lift up my hands to type each letter, as they do not move independently enough that I can keep my ...
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No caps lock indicator in tty console
I'm unsure if this behavior is normal or not, so I thought I'd ask. My caps lock key works perfectly normally during an X session, but when I log into a virtual console, the indicator light no longer ...
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Gnome tweak tool is unable to disable caps lock
I just installed this because xmodmap keeps resetting and I need to use caps lock as backspace but selecting this option in gnome-tweak-tool gives me normal caps lock behaviour AND caps lock behaviour....
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Caps Locks light not showing
I've installed Ubuntu on my MBP but when I press caps lock the green light on the caps lock button will not show. I can't tell when i have caps locks on because it won't turn on. What do i do to make ...
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An ability to make my CAPS work as CTRL again [duplicate]
When are you going to recover the ability to make CAPS work like Ctrl. Like in all previous versions?
This is really critical as I am using emacs key-bindings and this is a one huge stopper and ...
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I'm using Caps Lock as the Compose key. How can I still get caps lock behavior?
I'm running Ubuntu 23.04 with Wayland.
I've set the Compose Key to be Caps Lock in the Keyboard settings dialog. That's convenient - I can now compose lots of fancy characters easily. (For various ...
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Re-install drivers in Ubuntu 18.04
My HP laptop behaves weirdly after I disconnect my Bluetooth earphones. The bar shows WiFi connected, but the internet no longer works. Also, the Caps Lock starts blinking as 2 back to back and 1 ...
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