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icancto

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Registered: 2017-03-15

Posts: 6

Hold down the capslock key

Hello, I have been wondering if there is a way in Arch Linux to hold down the CapsLock key? I've always used it as an additional backspace and it's annoying if you can't hold it down to perform the action repeatedly.

HiImTye

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From: Halifax, NS, Canada

Registered: 2012-05-09

Posts: 1,072

Re: Hold down the capslock key

have you tried

xmodmap -e "clear Lock"

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49592

Last edited by HiImTye (2017-03-15 20:01:31)

icancto

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Registered: 2017-03-15

Posts: 6

Re: Hold down the capslock key

have you tried

xmodmap -e "clear Lock"

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49592

I have not. Thank you, it works.

icancto

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Registered: 2017-03-15

Posts: 6

Re: Hold down the capslock key

Any idea why it doesn't work when I add it to my i3 config?
exec_always --no-startup-id xmodmap -e "clear Lock"

Last edited by icancto (2017-03-16 14:30:11)

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

Posts: 6,286

Re: Hold down the capslock key

try:
"expression "expression" :-P

exec_always xmodmap -e "clear Lock" --> exec_always xmodmap OH A WHITESPACE! I'M DONE!

exec_always something something 'bla -blub "wooop"' ?