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bruh

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Registered: 2020-11-15

Posts: 6

[SOLVED]Colemak capslock issue.

Instead of using qwerty, i am using colemak.
In colemak layout, capslock button is actually backspace. The problem is that the actual backspace erases a letter if pressed once, and continuously erases when held down. But when I hold my capslock, it only erases one character and does not continue.
I have tried setxkbmap -option caps:backspace but that doesn't solve the issue.
I also posted this problem on reddit first, but other user tried and faced the same issue.
Thank you!

EDIT: the command
```xset r 66```
fixed the issue.

Last edited by bruh (2021-04-15 13:56:35)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 51,165

Re: [SOLVED]Colemak capslock issue.

setxkbmap -print -query

w/o efforts to "caps:backspace" (it'll probably not do anything) and try

xev -event keyboard

and press and hold the capsspace key.
You can also try to

xset r 66 # 66 is likely the capsspace keycode, check the xev output about this

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bruh

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Registered: 2020-11-15

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED]Colemak capslock issue.

From the command
```xev -event keyboard```
I noticed that backspace code was 66  and capslock was 22.
So after typing the command
```xset r 66```
as mentioned by Seth, fixed the issue.
Thanks a lot!!!