This didn't seem to be getting much attention in the Desktop Environment subforum, so I figured I would post it here. I have been wracking my brain over the past week or so with what should be a straight forward problem. I want to *permanently* swap the CapsLock and Ctrl keys on my laptop. I emphasise the permanently because I know how to do this on an ad hoc basis easily from the command line with a minor tweak to the keyboard map:
Code:
setxkbmap -option ctrl:swapcaps
The problem with this is I have to execute it every time I boot up, wake from sleep/hibernate, or connect a USB keyboard. This quickly gets annoying, and this really feels like something that should be persistently set on a per user basis.
After extensive Google searching and on this forum, I have drawn up the following dead ends:
- Setting a "Startup Application" with the appropriate command works for initial login, but then the keyboard gets reset upon sleep/hibernate and USB keyboard connection. This is the solution I see posted everywhere, but its not really a solution. Example: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread....t=keyboard+map
- I dove into X11/Xorg configuration. Creating any version of .x<something> in my home directory has no efffect (e.g. ~/.xinitrc, ~/.Xkbmap, ~/.Xmodmap, ~/.profile)
- Tried placing a script in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ but that has no effect either.
- I don't have a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file present and I don't particularly want to generate one. Also, I would rather not make a setting that is universal across users and not portable across devices.
- It seems like the above doesn't work because of gdm3 taking over the Xsession generation and possibly some involvement of Wayland (although I have confirmed my user session is X11 and not Wayland). I looked at the file /etc/gdm3/Xsession and confirmed that it does source the ~/.x<something> files, but then those settings must get overwritten at some point.
Does anyone have any insight through this swamp? It seems like the desktop/display manager situation for Ubuntu is an absolute mess with no definitive documentation.
My system:
Code:
5.3.0-28-generic #30~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 17 06:14:09 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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