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soren

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Registered: 2014-12-19

Posts: 1

Caps Lock issue with Colemak layout in Xorg

Apologies if this is a silly problem; I'm rather new to linux in general. I'm trying to set up the US and Colemak layouts, and be able toggle between them. Ideally, caps lock will act as a second backspace in Colemak, and as it normally does in US.

The problem seems to be strictly with the secondary layout. If Colemak is second, then caps lock backspaces as it should, but is also toggled on or off each press. If US is second, then, instead of toggling, caps lock behaves as a backspace. This occurs both in xfce4, and before, at the lxdm log-in screen.

This is how I have it set up with setxkbmap:

setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us,us -variant colemak, -option grp:shifts_toggle

Or in an Xorg conf.:

Section "InputClass"
        Identifier "system-keyboard"
        MatchIsKeyboard "on"
        Option "XkbLayout" "us,us"
        Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
        Option "XkbVariant" "colemak,"
        Option "XkbOptions" "grp:shifts_toggle"
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