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swap control and caps lock
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2020 10:10 pm
by spetey
Hi folks, I'm new to LXDE, via the Raspberry Pi. It looks great!
I will mostly use VNC to connect to my pi
via a virtual desktop, but I can't seem to get any options in
/etc/default/keyboard to work. I tried
but that seems ignored (yes after reboot too). And when I put this in a terminal:
I get an error like
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Couldn't interpret _XKB_RULES_NAMES property
Any thoughts or help on this? Thanks in advance!
Re: swap control and caps lock
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2020 1:46 pm
by edward
There is a command:
Reference:
https://ictsolved.github.io/remap-key-in-linux/
Also see:
Hope this helps.
Re: swap control and caps lock
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2020 6:15 am
by spetey
Thanks, I'll try it! The method I used seems to work fine for the "real" desktop, when it was connected to a monitor - but not for virtual desktops. I don't get why keyboard mappings depend on the display!
Re: swap control and caps lock
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2020 12:08 pm
by edward
spetey wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 6:15 am
Thanks, I'll try it! The method I used seems to work fine for the "real" desktop, when it was connected to a monitor - but not for virtual desktops. I don't get why keyboard mappings depend on the display!
That's probably by design. I've never actually used a virtual desktop/machine before.
Re: swap control and caps lock
Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2020 8:06 pm
by drooly
spetey wrote: ↑Sun Sep 27, 2020 6:15 amI don't get why keyboard mappings depend on the display!
Well, the keyboard mappings for the display server depend on the display.
The keyboard mappings for the console do not!
The "X" in the application or environment variable name usually denotes that it's relevant to the X server, i.e. the GUI.
You can have a look at e.g. /etc/default/console-setup for non-X stuff.