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Swapping the CTRL key with CAPS LOCK key on Windows XP & Linux

1 September 04

I use my laptop with windows xp mainly for work, which mainly involves working on my linux servers. I end up using the ctrl key a lot, whilst the caps lock key goes unused. My pinky fingers grew tired of always reaching for the awkwardly placed ctrl-keys. A quick search on the net for remapping those keys resulted in a solution:

WinXP:

Basically, startup Regedit. Go to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout and add a binary value called ‘Scancode Map’.

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Linux:

Well, Actually this is only for X 4.x, you can uncomment the following line in XF86Config:

Option “XkbOptions” “ctrl:swapcaps”

Or if it doesn’t exist, add that into the “InputDevice” section.

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