There have been many life-changing Linux moments for me, but most fade into my backstory as they become the status quo. There's one little keyboard trick Linux taught me that I'm reminded of every time I use it (maybe 1,000 times a day), and that's converting the Caps Lock key to Ctrl.
  • @nour@lemmygrad.ml
    5•3 years ago

    Interesting article, thanks for sharing. Well, I don’t mind reaching for the Ctrl key, but I got another way of using the Caps Lock key for something more useful than Caps Lock: I need to type special characters rather often, so I had set my Caps Lock to be the Compose key. This lets me do stuff like typing (Caps Lock) oA to get Å, typing (Caps Lock) << to get «, or typing (Caps Lock) CCCP to get ☭ (yes, the last one is a real option, I’m not sure why they added that, but I use it). I can also define my own combinations by editing the ~/.XCompose file (I can see the expected format by looking at any non-empty Compose file in the directories inside /usr/share/X11/locale/). These two articles have different instructions on how to enable the Compose key when using GNOME: here and here.