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Caps Lock Behaviour Disabled in Gnome
- db48x 3y agoNice. There are a lot of obscure and wonderful options in there, but that is the funniest.
- derbOac 3y agoI'm curious now about what "caps lock behavior disabled" is, as opposed to "caps lock disabled." I searched for it and couldn't really find anything that explained it.
- jsnell 3y agoI would assume it is "disable this tool changing the behavior". Something like "default" would avoid the ambiguity, but maybe "disabled" works better for other settings the tool can tweak and they want to be consistent?
- mattmerr 3y agoMy understanding is that the "disabled" radio option just means the Gnome Tweaks program won't override anything. Caps Lock behavior will be the system default, instead of being changed by Gnome Tweaks. The other one is "Gnome Tweaks will override Caps Lock to disable it"
- flipdot 3y agoIt might mean that the key itself is not disabled and thus free to be bound to some other action, but I agree that the remark sounds a bit odd.
- flipdot 3y agoI find the Compose feature to be quite useful, so I used to have Compose key on Caps Lock on Linux. After I’ve switched back to Windows, I found WinCompose to be a pretty decent equivalent of Compose for Windows, and found out it can also override Caps Lock behaviour (though in about 1% of cases the default Windows Caps Lock behaviour breaks through for a brief moment) and reassign the Caps Lock function to some other, less frequent combination of keys. In my case pressing both Shifts at the same time acts as a Caps Lock toggle.
- solardev 3y agoWhat is a compose feature? (edit: looked it up, and it seems to be a way to enter accented keyboard characters like é or ñ. It's standard on macos, and I guess in Linux you bind a key to it?)
- seabass-labrax 3y agoIt allows you to access more characters than would usually be accessible on the keyboard, such as diacritical marks and currency symbols.
- solardev 3y agoThanks! Sounds like the opt key on Macs or the AltGr key on some international keyboards
- Brian_K_White 3y agoJust another form of shift key. Shift itself is a compose key.
- jgtrosh 3y agoNot really: shift must be used simultaneously and you only input a single key to be shifted, while compose takes a (“dead”?) sequence of inputs to be combined.
- Brian_K_White 3y agoyes really. it's all the same thing. shift is just a simpler and more common subset. you are getting a glyph by composing from more than one key. whether ypu can let go of the key to do them in serial is immaterial. anyone could have an accessability setup for instance that allows shift to require only a single physical keypress at a time. It would still be shift.
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- jldugger 3y agoOkay, now do colemak in login screen so I can type my password in without having to use a visual keyboard.
- mindslight 3y agoTranslate your password such that you remember it as the Colemak keycaps as typed on the QWERTY layout? eg foobar -> tyybap.
- tlhunter 3y agoWouldn't work elsewhere, eg sudo.
- db48x 3y agoWhat display manager do you use? GDM does allow you to choose a different keyboard layout on the login screen.
- dfox 3y agoI'm somewhat disturbed by the fact that the list of possible behaviors does not contain equivalent of -xkboption ctrl:swapcaps, ie. swap caps lock and left control.
- RheingoldRiver 3y agoBetter than disabling capslock is to remap it to left control. In Windows, you can use SharpKeys [0] to update the registry to reconfigure behavior, or just use autohotkey (SharpKeys can't flip meanings, only overwrite one), although AHK won't work while you're logging into your user account on startup so SharpKeys is nicer. Not sure about Linux but I'm sure it's possible. Never having to reach all the way to the actual Left Ctrl button is actually a godsend, it's a much much nicer UX. [0] http://www.randyrants.com/category/sharpkeys/ http://www.randyrants.com/category/sharpkeys/
- bombcar 3y agomacOS can do this right in keyboard settings under modifier keys. It can be nice just to get rid of craps lock.
- CraftThatBlock 3y agoPowerToys also can do this, which I use to map Capslock to Esc
- nemetroid 3y agoSharpkeys can swap keys, the readme says as much: > Things that SharpKeys will do: > ... > Allow you to swap two keys with each other - e.g. you can swap Left Windows with Left Control and vice versa I do have a vague recollection of Sharpkeys previously saying that it couldn’t, but that I tried and it worked. Long time since I last used Windows though. https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys#things-that-sharpkeys-will-do https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys#things-that-sharpkey...
- RheingoldRiver 3y agoOh huh, I didn't even bother looking at the README when I wrote that, because I remembered so well that it was unable to do this. In fact, that's why I went for the CapsLock rebind in the first place - I originally just wanted a solution for my Lenovo laptop having Fn in the Ctrl spot, prior to Lenovo allowing you to customize this in BIOS. I found SharpKeys, but it wouldn't let me swap fn/ctrl. But while I was searching for how to do this, I came across some people who suggested remapping CapsLock to Ctrl, and I figured that was good enough, since it would still accomplish my original purpose, which was not to have to deal with 2 different muscle memories when using PC vs laptop. This was back in 2009 so many versions of Windows ago, that's cool that you can do it now. Although I'm quite glad I chose to remap CapsLock as Ctrl, so I'm glad it wasn't possible back then!
- IRP 3y agoI am using the same keyboard for Linux and Windows. I disabled the Keylock for both OS, by rolling a piece of metal under the key. Nothing visible. Case solved. Could have changed it in Linux but the others OS is for work and I can't install or modify anything on that computer.
- 28304283409234 3y agoFun fact: macOS adds a default delay to the CapsLock to prevent this. Quick tap will not enable CapsLock. Only long tap. Also fun: when remapping the CapsLock to control key using default macOS tools this behaviour remains. Eg: Mapping it to ctrl and trying to exit a shell command with ctrl+c only works with a long press. Super annoying. Like all things on macOS you need a third party tool, like carabiner.
- wodenokoto 3y agoIs there a way to do this on windows? After switching from a Mac to a pc with a Keychron mechanical keyboard I AM SUDDENLY SHOUTING ALL MY PASSWORDS The issue is a mix of me being used to super flat Mac keys and not having that caps lock delay
- aPoCoMiLogin 3y agoholy shit, for years I've though that the capslock is just bugged, usually had to press it twice, because it didn't register, but other keys were working correctly. what a stupid hidden behaviour, no wonder that the whole apple ecosystem is pissing me off. EDIT: had to search for it, just can't believe how stupid it is: https://www.reddit.com/r/macbook/comments/o6q52c/mba_m1_caps_lock_key_delay/ https://www.reddit.com/r/macbook/comments/o6q52c/mba_m1_caps...
- 28304283409234 3y agoI know right! I mean, I can understand doing this when CapsLock feature is actually enabled. But when disabled and key is remapped to another function? Very annoying.
- cwillu 3y agoDo not reveal the existence of that menu to gnome developers if you want it to live.
- nanna 3y agoI prefer mapping Caps Lock to Hyper, for an extra Emacs modifier.
- bjoli 3y agoCaps lock is left control (or backspace). Both shift keys pressed together is caps lock. I rebind scroll lock to hyper as well and bing a few well chosen Emacs functions to hyper+[1-9] You can have it all. The next thing will be keyboard manufacturers realising that you can get 2 extra modifiers in the bottom row by making the space-bar narrower.