Make the caps-lock key do the job of holding shift

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In Windows 10 when I press the Caps Lock key, I can type numbers and other special characters. Now, in Ubuntu 18.04, I have to keep pressing the shift button to do that. Since I switched from Windows 10 to Ubuntu 18.04, this was my biggest problem.

Also how can I remap my own custom keyboard layout? I searched a lot about this, but I can't find any comprehensible updated tutorial to do this.

Does this answer your question? How do I install a keyboard layout? — K7AAY, Apr 14 '20 at 17:10
@K7AAY: The main question is reasonably not a duplicate of the question you linked to, is it? — Gunnar Hjalmarsson, Apr 14 '20 at 18:16
It answers "Also how can I remap my own custom keyboard layout? I searched a lot about this, but I can't find any comprehensible updated tutorial to do this." For the future, please submit a separate Ask Ubuntu question for each question you have as per "Your questions should be reasonably scoped" from https://askubuntu.com/help/dont-ask . Also, use https://askubuntu.com/search to see if your question has been asked before as per https://askubuntu.com/help/on-topic — K7AAY, Apr 14 '20 at 18:30
Does this answer your question? How to remap Caps Lock key to Shift Left key? — karel, Apr 15 '20 at 01:22

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 14 '20 at 18:11

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[Answering the first question in your question. For the future, please submit a separate Ask Ubuntu question for each question you have.]

Install the gnome-tweaks package, if you haven't already done so.

sudo apt install gnome-tweaks

Then start Tweaks, navigate to Keyboard & Mouse -> Additional Layout Options -> Caps Lock behavior, and select Caps Lock toggles ShiftLock (affects all keys).

answered Apr 14 '20 at 18:11

Gunnar Hjalmarsson

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Sorry for the second question, I am still new to this.. – Adolin Apr 15 '20 at 18:20
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@Adolin: No problem, it takes some time to get used to Ask Ubuntu. It doesn't work as a forum, but it's a strict question/answer resource. – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Apr 16 '20 at 17:50
Thank you for this solution. it works when session is running but won't work on login screen. Any idea how to make it work everywhere ? regards – skonsoft May 31 '21 at 12:04
@skonsoft: For that you can set XKBOPTIONS="caps:shiftlock" in /etc/default/keyboard. – Gunnar Hjalmarsson May 31 '21 at 12:35

Make the caps-lock key do the job of holding shift

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