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MediocreGopher

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Registered: 2011-12-29

Posts: 9

Corsair K65 keyboard does not map capslock, while all others do

I have both a Corsair K65 and a Microsoft Wave on my laptop, in addition to the built-in keyboard. Additionally, I have the following in my .xinitrc

setxkbmap -option caps:escape

When running xev, on both the wave and the built-in keyboard pressing caps-lock shows that Escape is being pressed, as expected. However on my corsair, it shows that Caps_Lock is being pressed.

Is this a hardware issue? Or is there some trickery I need to do to get the corsair to also map the caps-lock key?

MediocreGopher

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Registered: 2011-12-29

Posts: 9

Re: Corsair K65 keyboard does not map capslock, while all others do

I replaced the above line in my .xinitrc with:

xmodmap -e "clear lock"
xmodmap -e "keycode 66 = Escape"

This fixed my problem

Last edited by MediocreGopher (2014-05-01 01:45:14)