I use i3wm, and to map cap lock to escape, I run:

setxkbmap -option caps:swapescape

This works fine, but sometimes while hitting the F1 key, my pinky can accidentally hit the Escape key, which turns on CapsLock.

Gnome has a very nice way to do this, where Shift + Escape = CapsLock. Hitting Escape on its own will do nothing.

  • gomp@lemmy.ml
    3·
    7 days ago

    I don’t use that so I’m mostly shooting in the dark, but… does caps:escape_shifted_capslock do what you want?

    (source: localectl list-x11-keymap-options | grep esc)