Hi all,
I know this might be seen as a little off-topic, but I would greatly
appreciate any help, if someone has a better idea where to post it, then
please recommend, I have already tried on imwheel's help page on
sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=45152
but judging by the amount of activity on there, I am not hopeful!
So, on with the problem. I was using the excellent Tip#166 to switch the
Caps Lock and Escape keys and it worked wonderfully. Then on Friday, I
tried to install imwheel as non-root, don't know if this is possible,
but I read the documentation and it didn't mention that it wasn't
(incidentally, I was doing this following
http://physics.ou.edu/~mcraven/mathmouse.html as a way of getting the
mouse wheel to work properly in mathematica under Linux). Anyway I got
complaints when trying to install it as it couldn't make the directory
/etc/X11/imwheel as I cannot log in as root. So I gave up on that idea
and as far as I was concerned had deleted anything to do with imwheel as
I used its configure command to install under the prefix of my home
directory. The problem is that now when I run the xmodmap
~/.speedswapper command that has worked up until now, the escape key
behaves like Caps lock as intended, but the Caps lock key seems to be
acting as both Caps lock AND escape, i.e. it will change me from insert
to normal mode, but also turns on Caps lock! I am running KDE 3.3.2,
Debian Sarge. The speedswapper file is as follows:
! Swap caps lock and escape, good for Vim
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
keysym Escape = Caps_Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = Escape
add Lock = Caps_Lock
the output of running xmodmap is:
xmodmap: up to 3 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):
shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e)
lock Caps_Lock (0x42)
control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d)
mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Alt_L (0x7d), Meta_L (0x9c)
mod2 Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3
mod4 Super_L (0x7f), Hyper_L (0x80)
mod5 Mode_switch (0x5d), ISO_Level3_Shift (0x7c)
after I run xmodmap .speedswapper the output of xmodmap is:
xmodmap: up to 3 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):
shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e)
lock Caps_Lock (0x9)
control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d)
mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Alt_L (0x7d), Meta_L (0x9c)
mod2 Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3
mod4 Super_L (0x7f), Hyper_L (0x80)
mod5 Mode_switch (0x5d), ISO_Level3_Shift (0x7c)
Sorry, I'm sure the solution may be obvious to someone who knows
anything about key mappings, but I don't :=^).
Any help is greatly appreciated
Many thanks,
Rob.
