How can I remap the Caps Lock key to be Shift Lock?

gnome keyboard remapping

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Solution 1

In Gnome, you can change Caps Lock beavior in Gnome-Tweak-tool, then Typing:

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Unfortunately, due to a bug/misfeature, the descriptions are hardly readable (they are truncated too short). You should match that with the full descriptions in /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/evdev.lst --- this seems the one you want:

 caps:shiftlock       Caps Lock toggles ShiftLock (affects all keys)

Just select a couple of them until you get what you want.

Solution 2

Yes, in KDE at least, this is easily configurable in the Keyboard system settings. Various options for mapping Caps Lock to Shift with locking are available:

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Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

Tim almost 2 years

I would like Caps Lock to behave as if it were Shift Lock - so when you have Shift Lock on and press 1, it gives !. I am using GNOME, but if I can use a package for another DE on GNOME, I'm happy to hear!

Is this possible?
Tim about 9 years

Can I get this interface in GNOME?
gertvdijk about 9 years

@Tim I'm not familiar with GNOME. You didn't specify in your question for which desktop environment you would like an answer. Having a lot of useful options for the keyboard is one of the reasons for me to use KDE only.
Tim about 9 years

yes, thanks for the answer :) I'll try and get it working on gnome.
bitops over 2 years

On Pop_OS! I used sudo apt install gnome-tweaks to install Tweaks, then Super key and type "Tweaks" to find it. Works great!