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  2. From: courtney@phoenix.cps.msu.edu (Jonathan Courtney)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
  4. Subject: Sun5PCOW keyboard remapping
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov12.203208.18623@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
  6. Date: 12 Nov 92 20:32:08 GMT
  7. Sender: news@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu
  8. Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan State University
  9. Lines: 24
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  11.  
  12.   Does anyone have experience with remapping the Type 5 keyboard under
  13. OpenWindows to swap the CapsLock and Control keys?  I do the following
  14. with xmodmap:
  15.  
  16. remove Lock    = Caps_Lock
  17. remove Control = Control_L
  18.  
  19. keycode 0x7E =  Control_L
  20. keycode 0x53 =  Caps_Lock
  21.  
  22. add    Lock    = Caps_Lock
  23. add    Control = Control_L Control_L
  24.  
  25.   unfortunately, this only works with the Sun5PC (MIT layout) keyboard --
  26. OpenWindows seems to use Sun5PCOW (OpenWindows layout) instead.  In this case,
  27. the CapsLock key becomes a Control *toggle*, and the Control key becomes
  28. a regular shift.  The "latching" effect stays with the CapsLock key.
  29.  
  30.   Any thoughts as to how to overcome this?
  31.  
  32.                         Thanks,
  33.  
  34.                         Jon Courtney
  35.