On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 08:48:21AM +0200, Peter Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I have tried to change the behavior of the CapsLock key to make it an > additional Escape key. In order to do this I read the advice on > https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard > > Specifically I did: > I changed the file /etc/default/keyboard to: > > XKBLAYOUT="us,at" > XKBVARIANT="," > BACKSPACE="guess" > XKBMODEL="pc105" > XKBOPTIONS="caps:escape" > > Then I tried to execute the commands > > # service keyboard-setup restart > > and rebooting the the whole system. Nothing worked. After rebooting > the CapsLock key behaved in exactly the same manner as before > rebooting. It is still a CapsLock key. > > Maybe this is helpful: > I use Debian Testing with Gnome. > > Does anyone have any tips on why this does not work? Or how to inform > the Wiki team that this page contains wrong information? > > Best regards, > Peter > > P.S.: I actually was able to change the keyboard layout later on by > the Gnome Tweak tool, but nevertheless I do not unterstand why the > official information does not work and it should be rectified.
I don't do this change, but when I do change my config as you've done (/etc/default/keyboard), I always run this: sudo dpkg-reconfigure xkb-data keyboard-configuration and then restart Xorg (I also run this from a Linux console, to make sure it's up to date with my config too: sudo setupcon ) Good luck,