Re: Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work

2017-09-23 Thread David Wright
On Sat 16 Sep 2017 at 19:45:50 (+1000), Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 15.09.17 08:48, Peter Smith wrote: > > 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

Re: Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work

2017-09-16 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 15.09.17 08:48, Peter Smith wrote: > 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. It is depressing to see the linux community succumb to

Re: Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work

2017-09-15 Thread James Montgomery
On 2017-09-15 10:03, Steve McIntyre wrote: Peter Smith wrote: --> Yes, I have already done that. Nevertheless the documentation on that Wiki page is wrong. I'd like to report a bug or something like this but the Wiki page does not provide any clues on how to do that. I don't want anybody else

Re: Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work

2017-09-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
Peter Smith wrote: > >--> Yes, I have already done that. Nevertheless the documentation on >that Wiki page is wrong. I'd like to report a bug or something like >this but the Wiki page does not provide any clues on how to do that. >I don't want anybody else to waste his/her time by reading and

Re: Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work

2017-09-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:08:26AM +0200, Dejan Jocic wrote: > On 15-09-17, Peter Smith wrote: > > --> Yes, I have already done that. Nevertheless the documentation on > > that Wiki page is wrong. I'd like to report a bug or something like > > this but the Wiki page does not provide any clues on

Re: Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work

2017-09-15 Thread Zenaan Harkness
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

Re: Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work

2017-09-15 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 10:09:27AM +0200, Mariusz Gronczewski wrote: [...] > I did it by xmodmap, just to different key than escape: Perhaps the problem is an interaction with the original poster's desktop environment (it is Gnome, iirc). Desktop

Re: Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work

2017-09-15 Thread Mariusz Gronczewski
On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 08:48:21 +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

Re: Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work

2017-09-15 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 15-09-17, 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

Re: Re: Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work

2017-09-15 Thread Peter Smith
> 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="," >

Re: Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work

2017-09-15 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 15-09-17, 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: > >