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I followed xmodmap way of swapping ESC and Caps lock in this link. It works well when I load .bashrc with . ~/.bashrc for the first time. However, if I edit different part of my .bashrc and reload it with same command, two keys are swapped back to original mapping. Why is this happening?
Portion of my .bashrc file
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xmodmap ~/.speedswapper
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My ~/.speedswapper script
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
keysym Escape = Caps_Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = Escape
add Lock = Caps_Lock
This happens because ~/.bashrc is called every time you open a new terminal. You should put xmodmap ~/.speedswapper to some file that is executed once you log into your machine. I prefer to have it present in ~/.xinitrc
A better way would be to put the swap code under ~/.Xmodmap which is executed correctly. But it has always been flaky to me.
~/.Xmodmap, and it's working like charm. I still don't get why .bashrc getting loaded twice resets the swap...I'm fairly new to bash...
.bashrc again, it'll swap those keys again. Try loading it three times.