davidbrewer/xmonad-ubuntu-conf

Switching escape and caps lock setting overwritten

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davidystephenson commented

I have my escape and caps lock key set to by switched via the gnome control panel. Installation of of this seems to have undone this. I used the install script. I did not have the problem with vanilla xmonad.

sunapi386 commented

If you look at start-xmonad, it remaps caps lock to left control. Just comment it out to fix the caps lock. Not sure about escape key.

setxkbmap -option 'ctrl:nocaps'

davidbrewer commented

My apologies on the super long lag time responding to this.

If I'm understanding your original message correctly, you have swapped the escape and caps lock keys, so that hitting escape triggers caps log and hitting caps lock gives you escape. Is that right?

sunapi386 is correct about the remapping of caps lock -- you should be able to comment that out in start-xmonad and it won't mess with that setting. It may be that the way I was remapping caps lock would also have messed with your remapped escape key, so I suspect that just that change would have fixed your problem.

I'm assuming sunapi386's comment fixed your issue or else you might have responded, so I'm closing this issue. If you still have a problem with this, let me know and I'll try to respond with less than a year turnaroud. :-)