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Hello everyone,
I am trying to switch ESC and Caps_Lock to improve my vi-effectiveness. Thus i put the following lines into my ~/.Xmodmap
! swap caps lock and escape
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
keysym Escape = Caps_Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = Escape
add Lock = Caps_Lock
And tried it by executing `xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap`
As result Esc and Caps_lock got swapped as expected, thus i put `xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap` into .config/openbox/autostart.sh and to try if it is loaded correctly i restarted X.
What happens is the following:
Esc and Capslock are swapped (as expected) and here comes the odd part: when hitting the keys for ']' there is also an Esc invoked.
I tried to figure out what exactly the problem is, but I wasn't able to discover anything else. Putting xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap into the .xinitrc instead of the autostart.sh didn't solve the problem either. So I was trying to figure out if openbox does set something related to xmodmap, but i couldn't find any resources.
Also i got the following lines in my .Xmodmap and they worked without any asinine side effect in the .xinitrc file:
keycode 77 = Num_Lock
keycode 234 = F19
keycode 233 = F20
In addition I tried to use just
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = Escape
Resulting in the same problems.
Would be nice to get some nice advice, since I am really completely out of
ideas.
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