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thelollies

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[Solved]Remapping Capslock to Ctrl-b

On my OSX laptop I have remapped capslock to ctrl-b since ctrl-b is the prefix that Tmux uses, and I'm a big Tmux user. I would like to do the same for my Arch setup. I don't use a  display manager, just XMonad on top of X11. I've had a play around and read up on configuring xkb and aside from temporarily disabling my keyboard I've had no success .

Has anyone had any luck remapping a key to a key combination?

Last edited by thelollies (2015-06-05 03:33:43)

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Re: [Solved]Remapping Capslock to Ctrl-b

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=155613

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karol

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Re: [Solved]Remapping Capslock to Ctrl-b

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 25#p683925 ;P
http://michaldarda.com/blog/2015/04/18/ … caps-lock/

thelollies

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Re: [Solved]Remapping Capslock to Ctrl-b

http://michaldarda.com/blog/2015/04/18/ … caps-lock/

This article sorted it for me, thanks karol!

In short,remap caps to F12 by add the following to ~/.Xmodmap:

clear Lock
keycode 66 = F12

Reload mapping with: xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap

Set the prefix in tmux to F12 by adding this to ~/.tmux.conf:

set-option -g prefix F12
bind-key F12 last-window

The second line makes a double-press of caps go to previous window, which is handy.