Move Capslock Remapping to xinitrc

Prevents a new instance of xcape being started with every single
shell session (i.e. a lot of sessions with tmux, urxvt, etc.).
Instead initializes xcape key replacement once when starting x
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Marty Oehme 2019-02-27 10:02:00 +01:00
parent 1097515a34
commit 39ca1b4d5c
2 changed files with 45 additions and 11 deletions

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#!/bin/sh
# Remaps Capslock key to control.
# (only works for x environment - I haven't needed it for non-x yet)
setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps
# Makes Capslock behave as escape - when ONLY capslock is pressed and released
# this only works when we already substitute a ctrl for caps with the lines above,
# otherwise control itself will act as escape.
# Needs xcape package installed. https://github.com/alols/xcape
xcape -e 'Control_L=Escape'

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#!/bin/sh
userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap
# merge in defaults and keymaps
if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi
if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi
if [ -f "$userresources" ]; then
xrdb -merge "$userresources"
fi
if [ -f "$usermodmap" ]; then
xmodmap "$usermodmap"
fi
# start some nice programs
if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ] ; then
for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/?*.sh ; do
[ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
done
unset f
fi
# Remaps Capslock key to control.
# (only works for x environment - I haven't needed it for non-x yet)
setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps
# Makes Capslock behave as escape - when ONLY capslock is pressed and released
# this only works when we already substitute a ctrl for caps with the lines above,
# otherwise control itself will act as escape.
# Needs xcape package installed. https://github.com/alols/xcape
type xcape >/dev/null 2>&1 && xcape -e 'Control_L=Escape'
type i3 >/dev/null 2>&1 && exec i3