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Openbox overwrites xmodmap configuration
I am setting up openbox on my laptop running Linux Mint 13. I want my Caps Lock key to act as an additional control key. I put the required settings in my ~/.Xmodmap file and checked it by running
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How can I set left alt + right shift keyboard layout switch in xubuntu?
From what I found from xkeyboard-config man page there is no such combination, which is very upset. Is there any workaround for that?
Because I want layout change to be as in winXP.
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Setxkbmap turns off NumLock LED - but not NumLock.
Whenever I use setxkbmap in a terminal (or my .bashrc), the next time I press any modifier keys (ctrl, shift, alt) the NumLock LED on my keyboard goes off, but NumLock itself is still active so it's ...
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setxkbmap switches between 2 out of 3 layouts
Issuing that command:
setxkbmap -layout "us,ua,ru" -variant ",winkeys" -option "grp:shift_caps_toggle,grp_led:scroll" -model pc105 -rules xorg
when hitting CAPS+SHIFT I'm switching between English ...
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xkb config has pointless entry?
I dumped the current xkb configuration with xkbcomp :0 keyboard.xkb and found that, for example, ISO_Level3_Shift has two 'interpret' entries:
interpret ISO_Level3_Shift+AnyOf(all) {
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xkbcomp doesn't update keymap for running xterms?
When I use setxkbmap all programs use the new layout but when I change the keyboard layout with xkbcomp to my own only newly started programs are affected (using xkbcomp with a file with a default ...
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How to make custom key type auto repeat in xkb
I have defined a custom key type in my xkb configure file to do some redirection (e.g. redirect Ctrl+p to Up etc.) However, I cannot get auto-repeat work for this custom type (neither the original key ...
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Change behaviour of the modifier keys system-wide
I’d want to make modifier keys (control, alt, shift, meta, super, lv3_switch) to act like usual keys, I mean, without holding one of them to perform associated key combination. Say C-x M-1 can by ...
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xkb: `ctrl:swapcaps` option messes with the escape key
I've been using setxkbmap -option "ctrl:swapcaps" to swap the capslock and left control keys, but I just recently noticed that this seems to mess up my escape key. With xev, I can see that pressing ...
