From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021118 Description of problem: Reposting the RFE from bug#74130 A check box for this option in rh-cfg-xf86 would be nice too. Likewise one for emulate 3 buttons mice. Having that option also switch the keys in console mode would be outstanding. If a user does it in X they are likely to want it on the console too. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.run redhat-config-xfree86 2.How to swap the control and caps keys? 3. Actual Results: Starting rh-cfg-xf should have an option to swap those key. It was in Xconfigurator, XF86Setup, and xf86cfg. It's still in the XF86Config file, but there's no UI to change it now. If possible it should also incluse an option to do the same swap for the console. I edit /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.map.gz to do it. There's probably an easier way, that would work for other keyboard types too, but I don't really understand the whole setup of /lib/kbd and loadkeys. Additional info:
This feature request belongs more to redhat-config-keyboard than redhat-config-xfree86, so I changed components. However, my opinion is that the vast majority of users do not want to swap the ctrl and caps lock keys and those that do will know how to edit the XF86Config file. There are a jillion X keyboard options that you can set, but exposing those in a UI is just not the right thing for most users. Resolving as 'wontfix'
I would disagree. That option was in the XF86 config tools for a long time, XF86Setup, and Xconfigurator. It is still added, as a comment to the XF86Config file. Most users from a unix background would do it if it was simple. That's why XF86 created the option, to mke the PC keyboard layout like the Unix layout. Every Sparc I've ever used had the position swapped. I also know several people that have swapped them in Windoze, using a horrid registry hack, because they expect the position to be different. This biggest is to swap them in both X and the console. Finding the correct file, and swaping the keycodes for the console is not as simple as using the X option. I have us-swap.map in /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/, but finding that took a while, and it is on for a US qwerty keyboard. Someone who understands the kmaps could probaly do it better, and make it work for all keyboards. If you only want windoze users, tio use linux, then it's fine to remove. But if you want the Unix world to switch, it's helpfull. A lot of the admins may not know about it, especially the console swap. The four Sun/Solaris guys here don't yet. Since they're talking about switching to linux for workstations, it would be handy to keep around, and improve. Has Mandrake or SuSe dropped it for X? I guess I should look. Sun's new systems still ship with <Control> between >Tab> and <Shift>, including the Blade and Linux boxes. So those users are used to it there. And it much easier to use in that position. Copmare the common emacs, bash, and tcsh <Ctrl>+<key> combinations with the different locations.
This option doesn't sound unreasonable to me. I don't use it, and never have seen people who do, but after asking on a few IRC channels if anyone uses the option I got back enough yes answers that it might be a good option to keep around, although I'm personally impartial myself. John, any thoughts?
People have lots of requests for redhat-config-keyboard to configure the various keyboard options in X, most of which don't make sense for the average user. Putting these options in the interface leads to clutter and confusion. The fact that the option has existed in previous config tools does not sway me because none of those tools was even close to having a good user interface. My main objection is that there's really no place for it in the GUI. If I add the option for swapping Ctrl and Caps Lock, then it gets harder for me to say no to the guy who wants to swap the Alt and AltGr keys. It just gets out of hand really quickly. I'd rather make a tool that is too simple for some people than a tool that is too complex for most. I still believe that most of those who would like to swap Ctrl and Caps Lock are capable of finding the option in the XF86Config file. As you say, the option is already there in the file but commented out. I'd rather have the experienced users do an extra step than have the newbies confused by the options that are unrelated to selecting the keymap for the system.