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I've got one of those from "Only on WIndows" series. One of my colleagues uses WIndows and tends to remote in from home. Unfortunately when a cleaner cleans the
by neverminder 9y ago
I've got one of those from "Only on WIndows" series. One of my colleagues uses WIndows and tends to remote in from home. Unfortunately when a cleaner cleans the office after hours she sometimes accidentally hits the CAPS key and he can't log in anymore remotely. His solution was to rip out the CAPS key and cover the hole with duct tape.
- Odenwaelder 9y agoI do this, too. The first thing I do when I get a new keyboard is to remove the caps lock key. I never used it in my 20 years of PC usages and I don't get why it's still there. Back in my CounterStrike gaming days I would also remove the Windows key because it would crash the game when accidentally pressed.
- wink 9y agoOn Windows, CapsLock is my Push-To-Talk key, so I remap it to F9 or something "useless" via KeyTweak. On Linux, it's my meta/compose/whatever key, so I can write äöü on UsIntl via caps-aou ( https://github.com/winks/dotfiles/blob/master/.us-intl-german.xmodmap https://github.com/winks/dotfiles/blob/master/.us-intl-germa... )
- golergka 9y agoMap escape key to it. Especially if you use vim.
- platz 9y agoI map ALT to CTRL and CapsLock to ALT, so I don't have to use my pinky to hot CTRL
- ssalka 9y agoDON’T remove caps lock!!! Use it as an application switcher! Some of my most used shortcuts: Caps + C = Chrome Caps + S = Spotify Caps + A = Atom Caps + T = Terminal +1 for removing windows key if gaming
- Noumenon72 9y agoThat's a really good idea. Most of my application switching needs are covered by the built-in Windows "Win+1 opens first icon on the taskbar, Win+2 opens the second...", but this could cover the lesser used ones like Outlook.
- cookingrobot 9y agoOn Windows, Win+1 launches the first app in the taskbar, Win+2 launches the second, etc.
- el_benhameen 9y agoI work about 30/70 on Mac and Windows. I have the caps lock key mapped to ctrl on Windows and cmd on Mac since they’re roughly equivalent. Makes switching my muscle memory when I switch my OS far less necessary. No more hitting ctrl-c to copy on Mac and instead sending a SIGKILL to the terminal!
- chris_wot 9y agoMy wife would kill me. She uses it to enter uppercase first letters. Just won’t (or can’t) work the shift key.
- stordoff 9y agoIt's used by the Japanese IME on Windows: Ctrl+CapsLock - hiragana input, Alt+CapsLock - katakana input, Shift+CapsLack - alphanumeric input.
- bananicorn 9y agoI like your typo in the last capslock, it accurately describes my capslock key ;) Though, that actually is interesting, and you made me read up ab bit on Japanese.
- ryall 9y agoAhh the good old CounterStrike quick exit! If you were lucky you could alt-tab back in, but you'd have a big mouse arrow where your reticle used to be :D I ended up coding a utility (in VS6!) to disable the windows key when you launched the game.
- roflchoppa 9y agodude that windows key always messed me up, esp because my computer was a load of crap, and it took hella days to minimize/maximize the window again, usually I had to reboot the machine.
- gadders 9y agoExcel powerusers get rid of F1: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-one-key-that-infuriates-bankers-so-much-theyll-pop-it-out-of-their-keyboards-2012-5?IR=T http://www.businessinsider.com/the-one-key-that-infuriates-b...
- Tomte 9y agoI use AutoHotKey to remap it to launch TotalCommander.
- kedean 9y agoDoes AutoHotKey function on the login screen?
- chris_st 9y agoNope -- I remap Caps Lock to control, and if I'm not careful I can wind up logged in with it stuck in caps mode, and no way to get lowercase characters without locking the screen, turning off all-caps mode, and logging in again. Luckily, this is hard to do :-)
- jweather 9y agoI use AHK to remap CapsLock to double-click to reduce the strain on my mouse hand, but I can access the original CapsLock function via shift-CapsLock. Try it -- maybe that will help you.
- chris_st 9y agoThat's a fantastic idea! Unfortunately, I use JetBrains IDEs, so I have lots of ctrl-shift keychords I couldn't live without.
- Scoundreller 9y agoNot a hack, but once we couldn't figure out why a printer dropped off the network. Turns out the cleaners were thorough enough to clean deep down behind a desk and turned off a surge protector that a 5-port network switch was plugged into.
- errantspark 9y agoI've mapped my caps key to ｆｕｌｌｗｉｄｔｈ ｔｅｘｔ, initially for quick-response memeing but it turns out it's actually quite helpful for increasing expressiveness on various chat protocols.
- bananicorn 9y agoThat's actually pretty cool - how do you accomplish that? (And on which OS?)
- ilammy 9y agoWTF? How come I worked around three years on RDP clients and stuff and did not know about this?
- jotux 9y agoI remapped my caps key to control on every machine I use. I find it much more ergonomic than the standard left-control location.