On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 03:34:59PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: [...] > > As it was noticed, these settings are invalid. It looks like previous > > XFree86 versions did ignore these errors and partially modified keyboard > > layout, but the safest option is not to modify the current layout when > > a parameter is wrong, otherwise keyboard might get corrupt and unusable. > > So IMO this bug can be closed. > > Well, I think it would be better if XKB permitted ctrl:nocaps to be > specified with nodeadkeys variants. [...]
It works, the problem here is that layout is 'us' and thus has no nodeadkeys variant. As settings are invalid, XKB refuses to change them and ctrl:nocaps is simply ignored. Denis