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10.3: Swap caps lock and control key positions
Authored by: n8gray on Nov 07, '03 12:07:34PM
I did a similar hack that allows me to remap modifiers arbitrarily. It's not so useful to have Control in Capslock position when all Mac shortcuts use Command. With my remapping I've got Capslock sending Command, Command sending Control, and Control sending Capslock. Even more sick: under X I remap again (using xmodmap) so that Capslock sends Control and Command sends Meta. It sounds confusing but it actually simplifies my life considerably. Shortcuts always use the capslock key, whether in X or OS X. Copy and paste is always Capslock-C Capslock-V, no matter which two apps I'm cutting and pasting from/to (other than, say, xterm...).

Unfortunately my hack only works for USB keyboards -- it doesn't help with my PowerBook Al. Fortunately uControl has finally been ported to Panther. I'm still using my hack because I do have occasional use for capslock and uControl can't map any other key to it. Plus, well, I did write it, and I do think that my solution is cleaner for USB keyboards -- it remaps at a lower level.

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10.3: Swap caps lock and control key positions
Authored by: n8gray on Nov 09, '03 01:24:32AM
Somebody asked, so if you're interested in my hacked driver you can get it here.

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