There seem to be several options for setxkbmap such as -option caps:backspace which makes caps a backspace. However I cannot seem to find an option that makes backspace an escape key. How do I create a single setxkbmap command that changes the backspace key to an escape key?
I want to shuffle a few keys around with XKB. (Why? On a laptop where some keys are inconveniently located.) I currently use xmodmap:
I am writing a new custom keyboard layout for Xorg, but there is one particular glyph which does not exist in Unicode. It is, however, easy to create it by using a standard letter plus a combining diacritic mark.
I want to create and set a custom keyboard layout with setxkbmap. I created a file in ~/.xkb/prog with this content:
I am running the latest version of Linux Mint with Cinnamon. I’m trying to map Caps Lock to Ctrl, but I cannot figure out how to do it. All web searches I’ve done have led me to older versions of Linux Mint (there is no keyboard layout option in my settings). How can I do this?
How do I map key “Super” so, when combined with Left/Right, it produces keycode Home/End?
I am trying to configure xkb such that Caps Lock is mapped to the Compose key and Shift+Caps Lock functions as the traditional Caps Lock. I put the following in a new file called /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/gdwatson:
I have my keyboard layouts (two of them) and switching between them configured via the following command:
Is there a way from command line to retrieve the list of all available
keyboard layouts and relative variants?
I have a Macbook Air that runs Linux. I want to swap the alt and super keys in both sides of the keyboard with each other.