change Caps Lock to Esc in i3

answered Mar 31 '13

vandannen
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updated Mar 31 '13

you can modify your keyboard layout with xmodmap. To replace the caps_lock functionality with escape you could execute the following commands on startup:

xmodmap -e "clear lock" #disable caps lock switch
xmodmap -e "keysym Caps_Lock = Escape" #set caps_lock as escape

answered Mar 31 '13

mschaefer
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I don't know a direct i3 solution but you could bind the escape key to xdotool:

bindsym Escape exec xdotool key 66

(66 being the keyCODE for Capslock, maybe check it using xev). Xdotool is available via package management in at least Ubuntu and Arch Linux.

answered Apr 9 '13

schischi
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You can also use:

setxkbmap -layout us -option caps:escape