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You don't need any extra software to map Caps to Esc on X11: Just enable the caps:escape option. In context: https://github.com/majewsky/system-configuration/b

• dijit 7y ago
  Yeah. That’s cool, but I’m talking about conditional context switching. ESC if pressed once. CTRL it pressed with another key.
  • davefp 7y ago
    This is the sort of thing I'd want to modify the keyboard firmware for. QMK has explicit support for this kind of thing, for example: https://docs.qmk.fm/#/feature_advanced_keycodes?id=mod-tap https://docs.qmk.fm/#/feature_advanced_keycodes?id=mod-tap
• silasdb 7y ago
  You can also use xmodmap [1]. My xmodmap file has things like: ! Make Caps Lock be Escape and Scroll Lock be Caps Lock remove Lock = Caps_Lock keysym Caps_Lock = Escape remove Lock = Scroll_Lock keysym Scroll_Lock = Caps_Lock add Lock = Caps_Lock After reading this post, I also reverted backspace and bar/backslash: keysym BackSpace = backslash bar keysym backslash = BackSpace [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xmodmap https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xmodmap EDIT: xmodmap link
  • majewsky 7y ago
    XKB options have the advantage of also being understood by Wayland compositors.