Comments on: Disable Caps Lock Key in Linux

By: Tucker

Tucker — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:14:53 +0000

@Pradeep

Maybe try lock screen?

By: Pradeep

Pradeep — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:42:26 +0000

How Can I Disable the Keyboard in RHEL-4.
to Aovid the Input In My Absens.
Pradeep

By: Jasleen

Jasleen — Sun, 10 May 2009 13:19:17 +0000

I think, that the command

xmodmap -e “remove lock = Caps_Lock”

only works if your caps lock is off

By: lowly worm

lowly worm — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:33:50 +0000

I want to disable a bunch of keys because my daughter accidently presses them when she is playing a game on her “Aspire one”. The method worked for many keys but not all.

For example to disable the tux-key (the linux equivilent to the windows-key)
xev doesn’t show a keycode when i press the tux key
infact i don’t see any Keypress event, just a lot of other events.

———————————————————————————
[user@localhost ~]$ xmodmap -pm
xmodmap: up to 3 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):

shift Shift_L (0×32), Shift_R (0x3e)
lock Caps_Lock (0×42)
control Control_L (0×25), Control_R (0x6d)
mod1 Alt_L (0×40), Meta_L (0x9c)
mod2 Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3
mod4 Super_L (0x7f), Hyper_L (0×80)
mod5 Mode_switch (0x5d), ISO_Level3_Shift (0×71), ISO_Level3_Shift (0x7c)
———————————————————————————————

I thought it might be possible to just remove the mapping for “mod4 Super_L”, but even that did not work.

Any tips on this, most welcome.
//The Lowley Worm

By: Gokdeniz Karadag

Gokdeniz Karadag — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:51:11 +0000

Making caps lock an additional control key is ver useful also. It makes typing shortcuts a lot easier.

By: housetier

housetier — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:35:38 +0000

I have switched ESC and CAPS_LOCK, which makes vim much easier to use.