Re: Cool trick : Ctrl & Caps Lock Trading Jobs

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From: Faried Nawaz
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 08:33

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stevesusenet@yahoo.com (Steve) wrote in message news:<6f8cb8c9.0208221402.c1b75d1@posting.google.com>...
 
> These lines were already in my /~.Xmodmap file, all I had to do was
> comment them out.  I am use Gnu Linux, Suse 7.2.  Your distro may
> already have these lines in there, if not the man page for xmodmap has
> a similar example you can cut/paste.

If you're running XFree86, you can also add "ctrl:swapcaps" to the
appropriate
section of your XF86Config file to achieve a similar effect.

I use something similar to "ctrl:nocaps" myself.


> If you use emacs, vi or another keyboard intense application you
> should give it a try.  Its an amazing difference having your "Ctrl"
> key up where Caps Lock is.

Interestingly enough, Symbolics keyboards didn't have Control keys
next to 'A'; see

http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~moeller/symbolics-info/symbolics-images/keyboard.JPG


Faried.
-- 
The Great GNU has arrived, infidels, behold his wrath !
If I wanted a GF,                Values, not variables.
      I'd use CL.

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