Scripting a permanent CTRL / CAPS swap in Gnome?
- by Duncan Bayne
I have a bash script that I use to configure a vanilla Ubuntu (10.10 Maverick Meerkat) installation to be exactly the way I want it. I make extensive use of gconftool-2 to configure the desktop, set up shortcut keys, etc.
Now, I'm trying to swap the CTRL and CAPS keys. I have found two ways of doing this:
In Gnome, go to System - Preferences
- Keyboard - Layout - Options and make the change in there. This works
well, but I don't know how to script
this; the setting doesn't seem to be
stored in the usual place as I can't
find it with gconf-editor.
Add the
line setxkbmap -option "ctrl:swapcaps" to my .bashrc file.
That works too, until I suspend the
machine & then resume it. At that
point the CTRL and CAPS behaviour
return to normal, until I cause
.bashrc to be run again by opening a
new shell. This behaviour has been
reported as a bug in RedHat.
Could someone please suggest a way of switching those keys that is both permanent, and can be scripted? I'm sure I must be missing something obvious here ...