[arch-general] How can I set CAPS LOCK as Escape throughout reboot

Damjan Georgievski gdamjan at gmail.com
Thu Aug 17 14:10:58 UTC 2017


On 17 August 2017 at 15:51, Junayeed Ahnaf via arch-general
<arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Currently I use "setxkbmap -option caps:escape" and it works well, but
> I'd like to know how to make it persistent through reboot. I set this
> line in .xinitrc but it didn't work.


depends on your login manager and the desktop environment. Gnome will
overwrite XKB settings anyway. KDE would if configured.

some login managers (or their Xsession scripts) will read ~/.Xkbmap as
options to setxkbmap


-- 
damjan


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