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 Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 4:42 pm Post subject: swap [caps lock] <-> [ctrl] on ibook/pbook |
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I guess I am not the only one who likes to swap the [caps lock] key with the [ctrl] key.
Unfortunately, there are some hardware problems on iBooks/PowerBooks: The Caps-Lock key is handled in a non-standard way.
Some clever guy wrote a kernel-patch which fixes this problem.
EDIT:
Just found a posting which contains both versions of the patch for kernel 2.4 and 2.6.
I applied the patch on ppc-development-sources-2.6.2_rc1-r1. Now I can change [ctrl] and [caps lock]. But there is some interference between the (original) caps-lock and the power key. I can use the power key several times for suspend, but at some point it does not work any more. xev tells me this on my power key:
| Code: | | KeyPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x3000001, root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 509788370, (678,-262), root:(682,320), state 0x10, keycode 66 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: "" |
and this on my (original) caps-lock key, which now works as ctrl:
| Code: | KeyPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x3000001,
root 0x40, subw 0x0, time 509949461, (514,-101), root:(518,481),
state 0x10, keycode 66 (keysym 0xffe3, Control_L), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes: "" |
They both have the same keycode, and the power-key is listed as Control_L!
The power key only gives a KeyPress event, but no KeyRelease Event. To get it to work a second time, I have to press the (original) caps-lock first, which gives the missing KeyRelease event.
Also, if pressing [power][caps lock], then caps-lock only gives this KeyRelease event. But if pressing [caps-lock] without a preceding [power], then caps-lock gives the full KeyPress, KeyRelease sequence.
Does anyone have an idea how to fix this?
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I just noticed that xev reports | Code: | KeyPress event, serial 28, synthetic NO, window 0x2600001,
root 0x48, subw 0x0, time 449597, (-310,340), root:(288,360),
state 0x4, keycode 222 (keysym 0x0, NoSymbol), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes: "" |
before the first suspend after a reboot.
But from the first suspend & resume on I get keycode 66 for the power key, as reported in the first posting.
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