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I'm trying to do the typical remapping of capslock to control, but I also want to remap left control to be a second super key. I can do this fine with xmodmap, but as soon as I switch to a virtual terminal (ie what comes up when you hit ctrl-alt-f1), I'm back to being stuck with default key mappings. So what I'm mainly looking for is a way to remap the keys in the virtual terminals as well.

I'm ok with having to use xmodmap for stuff in X, and a separate method for virtual terminals, but I'd prefer to do something that handles both situations if possible.

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You will need to use loadkeys for your console. See also keymaps and dumpkeys.

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From askubuntu.com

As far as your caps->ctrl goes, this works. You might be able to use this same method to remap your super key as well.

sudo vi /etc/default/keyboard

Now find the line that starts with XKBOPTIONS, and add ctrl:nocaps to make caps an additional ctrl or ctrl:swapcaps to swap them.

For example, mine looks like

XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_alt,compose:menu,ctrl:nocaps"

then run

sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

The reason this way is better is that it will take effect on the virtual consoles (e.g. ctrl+alt+F1) as well as in the graphical desktop.

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