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    Remap bluetooth keyboard keys?

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        vandys
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        I have a nice BT keyboard, everything works perfectly. I would like to remap the caps lock key to be another control key, as I use the control key often and the caps lock basically never.

        On Android, this is the kcm and kl files. I see these directories on my phone, but they don't really seem to apply under Touch (it appears a generic HID interface is used instead?).

        On X this would be the xmodmap command, but this isn't X, it's Mir, I think.

        And if it was the console it'd be loadkeys. But this is Bluetooth, not console.

        So has anybody discovered where Touch keeps its keyboard mapping files? TIA.

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          advocatux @vandys
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          @vandys, maybe you can try something like this

          http://www.fascinatingcaptain.com/howto/remap-keyboard-keys-for-ubuntu/

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            vandys @vandys
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            Some more discoveries...

            A look at the keyboard options leads me to some setxkbmap files in /usr/share/X11/xkb. However, setxkbmap itself doesn't work (no X display). Yay.

            There's an /etc/default/keyboard file, but putting ctrl:swapcaps in XKBOPTIONS has no effect. Yay again.

            I guess next I'll try morphing one of the keyboard configs and see if it'll pull in my changes through the screen menu.

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              advocatux @vandys
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              @vandys, you can try to play with loadkeys, dumpkeys and showkeys in the terminal.

              https://superuser.com/questions/290115/how-to-change-console-keymap-in-linux

              I don't know for the graphic session though. Maybe there's some template somewhere but I didn't investigate it yet.

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