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Linux + Xorg : Remapping caps lock key to escape -
November 12, 2010 by
Stephane Kattoor
In this post I’ll revisit the classical “how to remap caps lock into something useful” once again. In this post, I’ll show how to remap the caps lock key to have an extra Escape key, which is very useful for all VI/Vim users.
HAL + Xorg X server : Using HAL to set hardware specific configurations for Xorg Xserver -
October 12, 2009 by
Stephane Kattoor
The Xorg X Server can now rely on HAL to get information about the hardware the machine is running. This allows the X Server to auto-configure most of its components such as keyboard / mouse / screen / graphic adapter. But there is still room for tweaking it if needed.
This post explains how to configure extra properties for a keyboard at the HAL level, so that X Server will correctly auto-configure it for you.
