I got this working on my system (running X) with the help of a daemon (https://github.com/alols/xcape https://github.com/alols/xcape). $ setxkbmap -option

I got this working on my system (running X) with the help of a daemon (https://github.com/alols/xcape https://github.com/alols/xcape). $ setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps $ xcape Now I just have to flog my muscle memory into submission.