Re: Upgrade from F9 -> F10 xorg.conf problem

[Steven W. Orr]

Steven W. Orr wrote:
>  I upgraded from F9 to F10. In my xorg.conf I had this set:
>
>  Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier "Keyboard0"
>         Driver      "kbd"
>         Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
>         Option      "XkbLayout" "us"
>         Option      "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
>  EndSection
>
>  The ctrl:swapcaps no longer seems to take. i.e., I want my ctrl and  
>  capslock to be switched.
>
>  Any ideas? 
This is probably caused by the switch to evdev for input.  You might
have better luck setting the options via hal, with something like this
in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-keymap.fdi:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
    <device>
        <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keys">
            <merge key="input.xkb.options" 
type="string">ctrl:swapcaps</merge>
        </match>
    </device>
</deviceinfo>

And then you should be able to remove the InputDevice section in
xorg.conf (or remove xorg.conf entirely).

---------Me again-------------------
I tried this and didn't get anywhere. What I did was to create 
/etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-keymap.fdi
followed by
/etc/init.d/haldaemon restart
and then relogging in.

Also, I note that in the man page for evdev, there is no option for 
XkbOptions.

I think I'm close. Any suggestions?

Also, I have an old .Xmodmap file to do the same thing that now fails to 
pass through the xmodmap program.

Here's the screen:

524 > cat .Xmodmaprc-20050222 
remove mod1 = Meta_L
remove mod1 = Meta_R
remove mod1 = Alt_L
remove mod1 = Alt_R
remove mod4 = Alt_L
remove mod4 = Alt_R
remove mod4 = Meta_L
remove mod4 = Meta_R
keycode 64 = Meta_L
keycode 113 = Meta_R
keycode 115 = Alt_L
keycode 116 = Alt_R
add mod1 = Meta_L
add mod4 = Alt_L 

!
! Swap Caps_Lock and Control_L
!
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
remove Control = Control_L
keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
add Lock = Caps_Lock
add Control = Control_L

!
! Set up the mouse
!
!pointer = 1 2 3 4 7 6 5
pointer = 1 2 3 7 6 4 5
525 > xmodmap < !$
xmodmap < .Xmodmaprc-20050222
xmodmap:  up to 3 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):

shift       Shift_L (0x32),  Shift_R (0x3e)
lock        Caps_Lock (0x42)
control     Control_L (0x25),  Control_R (0x69)
mod1        Alt_L (0x40),  Alt_R (0x6c),  Meta_L (0xcd)
mod2        Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3      
mod4        Super_L (0xce),  Hyper_L (0xcf)
mod5        ISO_Level3_Shift (0x5c),  Mode_switch (0xcb)

526 > 

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