Because CapsLock
has the keycode 66
on my English_US
keyboard layout, the command
xmodmap -e "clear Lock" -e "keycode 66 shift = Delete BackSpace"
turns CapsLock
into the Delete
key and Shift+CapsLock
into BackSpace
.
If I want to swap the mappings of CapsLock
and Shift+CapsLock
by
xmodmap -e "clear Lock" -e "keycode 66 shift = BackSpace Delete"
then Shift+CapsLock
does not delete the character under the cursor but gives an error bell. Albeit xev
shows that the correct keysymbol Delete
is passed to X. Why?