FWIW, a datapoint.

Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de
Fri May 14 13:47:26 UTC 2010


On Thu, 13 May 2010 22:00:47 -0700, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:
> 	well, still same on my laptop after days of trying to fix the
> 	"thinkpad keyboard" that made the box all but unusable.  xev
> 	thinks the caps lock is a left control key.   i have given
> 	up for now.  {yes, having flash is a feature and/or a
> 	surprise, but not quite doing w/out the capslock!}

Within the last few days, there was a message on this list
about how to use xmodmap to change this. People often use
xmodmap to turn Caps Lock into left Ctrl, but it can be
done in reverse, too. See the near-time archives for an
occurance of xmodmap, this may help you, and maybe work
both on PC-BSD as well as on regular FreeBSD (allthough
it might be that KDE does many things on its own and doesn't
care for "low level settings" such as xmodmap). At this
point, it may be useful to point out that KDE might have
its very own keyboard setup controls - check them to find
out if you can re-assign the keys within KDE.



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