How to change ibus input method shortcut to Shift+Caps Lock?
I guess the problem can be solved from the point of Linux Mint, where the ibus-setup
application's capturing pressed key window is not broken.
The correct spelling is Caps_Lock
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Adam Ryczkowski
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Adam Ryczkowski about 1 year
I like how the different keyboard layouts are handled in Ubuntu - I can customize the switching keyboard shortcut to Shift+Caps Lock, I can rig the Caps Lock keyboard LED to show the alternate keyboard layout...
But I find it much more convenient to use the ibus transliteration stuff instead of switching the keyboard layouts. I understand, that keyboard layouts are a completely different thing and entirely unrelated to the ibus stuff.
I'd like to mimic the keyboard layout handling behavior with ibus - specifically switching the input methods with Shift+Caps Lock (and as a bonus - rigging the LED to show if the alternate input method is active)
On
ibus-setup
I see no way to set the next input method as Shift+Caps Lock.I tried the following values:
<Shift>+caps-lock
<Shift>+CapsLock
<Shift>+Caps
<Shift>+Caps Lock
The problem might be that I don't know how to spell the "Caps lock" properly for ibus...
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Carolus over 3 yearsI don't know how it worked for you, but for me one caveat is that when pressing my Shift+Caps Lock, it still toggles caps lock function (and light). So every time I switch layout I also toggle caps lock either on or off. So Caps Lock key is unusable for me in ibus. This might not be a problem if your only other layout is e.g.
ibus-mozc
which doesn't care about caps as much. Also maybe you can turn off your normal caps lock function.