Configuring the Keyboard ?

[Charly Baker]

On Thursday December 9 2004 9:11 am, Geoffrey Hunter wrote:
> I have two frequent irritations:
>
> I Never want Overwrite Mode and I Never want Caps-Lock On,
> yet when I am typing some text, one or the other
> "accidentally" (mysteriously) gets set On.
>
This fragment:
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! caps lock = tab
clear lock
keycode 66 = Tab
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Is a script for the xmodmap command that will change the caps lock key into a 
tab key.  I leave it as an exercise to figure out how to have it executed 
automatically.

Be forewarned: the area of key mapping gets you into layers of indirection 
that can be quite confusing.  You will need to do a lot more than ask a 
mailing list.  There are good howto's.  I think the keyboard and console 
howto was the one I found most useful.

Charly Baker
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