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Re:Dell XPS 13 Plus developer edition: Now available with Ub... by bibanez on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @02:50AM (#32561316)
You can switch Escape with caps lock. It's easy to do in linux and arguably better if you get used to it for vim keybinding ergonomics
Re:Dell XPS 13 Plus developer edition: Now available with Ub... by elcomet on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @02:53AM (#32561338)
But how do you caps lock ?
Re:Dell XPS 13 Plus developer edition: Now available with Ub... by vladvasiliu on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @03:13AM (#32561491)
I usually do both shifts together for Caps Lock. I basically never use it anyway.

In my case, I have a physical Escape key, but use Caps as my "hyper" key to interact with the WM.

If you're using X11, the incantation goes into your keyboard config (the last one is what's of interest):

    % cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-custom-kbd.conf
    Section "InputClass"
      Identifier "keyboard defaults"
      MatchIsKeyboard "on"

      Option  "XKbModel" "pc105"
      Option  "XKbLayout" "us"
      Option  "XKbVariant" "mac"

      Option  "XKbOptions" "shift:both_capslock"
    EndSection
Re:Dell XPS 13 Plus developer edition: Now available with Ub... by pmontra on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @03:08AM (#32561453)
I remapped caps lock to control many years ago in Tweaks, Keyboard & Mouse, Additional Layout Options, Caps Lock Behavior. I can enable caps lock by pressing both shift keys and disable it by pressing any shift.
Re:Dell XPS 13 Plus developer edition: Now available with Ub... by marssaxman on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @06:02AM (#32562573)
I would rather know: why do you caps lock?

I think many if not most people never use it at all.

Re:Dell XPS 13 Plus developer edition: Now available with Ub... by bee_rider on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @03:38AM (#32561655)
Even FORTRAN has come to accept the existence of lower case characters nowadays.
Re:Dell XPS 13 Plus developer edition: Now available with Ub... by nont on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @02:56AM (#32561364)
Remapping a combination of the windows key + another key like a backspace to Caplock gets the job done for me. Even shift + caplock would also solve the problem
Re:Dell XPS 13 Plus developer edition: Now available with Ub... by carlesfe on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @03:09AM (#32561464)
Shift-Capslock