[Novalug] "Exorcising Caps Lock"

[Mike Shade]

zcat filename.gz |less

would probably work :)


Nino Pereira wrote:
> Don,
>
> how do you read that boottime.kmap.gz file? Do you have
> to unpack it first?
>
> Nino
>
>
> donjr wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 16:01 -0400, Doug Toppin wrote:
>>> I haven't messed with the kbd config in quite a while but I frequently
>>> seem to hit caps lock when I'm not paying attention and it completely
>>> messes me up when in vim.  The following has some useful little tips
>>> on that subject:
>>>
>>> http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/netos/article.php/3687781
>>>
>>> I don't think that I've ever kept caps lock on so turning it off with:
>>> modmap -e "remove lock = Caps_Lock"
>>>
>>> is about to become my default I think.
>>>
>>> Doug
>>
>> Oh I guess you mean:
>>   xmodmap -e "remove lock = Caps_Lock"
>>   /\ note the 'x'
>>
>> Also note the 'xmodmap' program only works when you're using an
>> X-display.
>>  {-: IOW it DON'T work from plan old console type text terminals. :-}
>>
>> As the author of the above article pointed out if you are using Gnome or
>> KDE do check out there "User Preference Keyboard" configuration utils as
>> it may have a simple way to do what you want with NO hand editing of
>> those nasty .*rc files, that a simple keystroke mistake can even prevent
>> you from logging in.
>>
>> BTW
>>   Do you want to also handle it in at the console text terminals level?
>> Then check out the program 'loadkeys'.
>> The command in order to have the same effect is:
>>   echo 'keycode 58 = ' | loadkeys 
>> On Debian based systems see the file /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz
>>  WARNING: if you decide to touch be VERY VERY careful. WARNING
>>
>> --  
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