[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#633622: remap doesn't take effect

[Michael Schutte]

Hi Volkan,

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:06:51AM +0300, Volkan YAZICI wrote:
> When I uncomment
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #s/keycode  58 = Caps_Lock/keycode  58 = Control/;
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> line in /etc/kbd/remap, it doesn't take effect on
> /etc/console-setup/cached.kmap.gz. To further investigate the problem, I
> checked the last modification time of cached.kmap.gz, but it was far
> from current time. (dpkg-reconfigure console-setup didn't make a
> difference.)

That’s because this file only applies to keymaps loaded by the kbd init
script itself; since you use console-setup, this is disabled altogether.
Try setting

	XKBOPTIONS="ctrl:nocaps"

in /etc/default/keyboard and run

	invoke-rc.d console-setup restart

to make the changes effective.  Can you confirm that this works?

Cheers,
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