On Thu 20 Aug 2020 at 09:17:08 (-0400), Henning Follmann wrote: > > I have a strange one here. > I do have in my /etc/default/keyboard this option line: > > XKBOPTIONS="lv3:menu_switch,compose:ralt,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp,ctrl:nocaps" > > for some time this works fine. I am talking about the last option. > I do not want the caps lock, so I mapped it to ctrl. > > But it forgets. I cannot describe it any other way. > Then I do a dpk-reconfigure again (say "no" when it comes to > if I want to keep the options), go edit the /etc/default/keyboard > to add ctrl:nocaps, and it works again. ... for a while. > Then it doesn't. I have ABSOLUTELY no idea why.
I'm not sure why you're doing things in that order. You should edit /etc/default/keyboard to include the options you want (which you can't get from the questions Debian asks, then run dpkg-reconfigure keyboard and say YES. After all, if you don't want to keep them, why bother to type them in?) Then, it's recommended that you reboot. Cheers, David.
