Shift lock key in Unity

Question

Belgian keyboards seem to have shift lock keys, as opposed to caps lock keys. Under Gnome or KDE, it seems trivial to change, but not so under Unity.

The keyboard layout is set to Belgian, and I tried several other Belgian layouts.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 02 '17 at 16:29

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A command line way to turn Caps Lock into ShiftLock on Unity is:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources xkb-options "['caps:shiftlock']"

answered Dec 02 '17 at 16:29

That's an interesting one. Does that work on the login screen too, or just the Unity session? – rubdos Dec 02 '17 at 18:28
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@rubdos: Only session. To do the same system wide, i.e. including the login screen, open /etc/default/keyboard for editing and set XKBOPTIONS="caps:shiftlock" – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Dec 02 '17 at 19:16

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