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I want to swap Caps Lock and Ctrl. My solution so far is to edit /etc/default/keyboard and setting XKBOPTIONS="ctrl:nocaps" There are problems with this solution. First it doesn't work with virtual consoles and it doesn't work with Source games. See https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Dota-2/issues/47

My keyboard is:

I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab54
N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
S: Sysfs=/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input2
U: Uniq=
H: Handlers=sysrq kbd event2 
B: PROP=0
B: EV=120013
B: KEY=402000000 3803078f800d001 feffffdfffefffff fffffffffffffffe
B: MSC=10
B: LED=7

I tried to follow this guide https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Map_scancodes_to_keycodes but it is not working.

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I don't know about Source games, but this does work on virtual consoles for many of us. See: How do you remap a key to the Caps Lock key in Xubuntu?

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  • This is the solution I pointed out above. It's weird since I can Ctrl-Alt-F1(-F7) to a virtual console. Once there my CapsLock is CapsLock but I can still switch virtual consoles via CapsLock-Alt-FN. – user283808 Sep 19 '14 at 01:36
  • Odd. The /etc/default/keyboard approach works fine for me on Ubuntu trusty. – nealmcb Sep 22 '14 at 22:05