In systemsettings > Input Devices > Keyboard > Advanced I select "Make Caps Lock an additional Ctrl" from the list of options. Nothing happens however, and it still behaves as a Caps Lock. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. In systemsettings > Input Devices > Keyboard > Advanced select "Make Caps Lock an additional Ctrl" 2. Hit Apply 3. Test Caps Lock key Actual Results: nothing Expected Results: remapped Caps Lock to Ctrl
I normally map my Caps Lock to Esc under the same options. This works, then stops working at some point aka Caps Lock becomes itself again. When it stops working, a restart seems to help. It is my impression that the mapping stops working again when the lock screen is enabled after being idle. I have the latest KDE (Framework is at 5.9.0) installed via the Kubuntu backports PPA for 15.04.
Hi Lars, The remapping has never worked for me since I updated to version 5 with kubuntu 15.03. Even on a fresh boot, it doesn't work. Can you try to reproduce my problem and see if remapping Caps as Ctrl works for you? I also tried the options in the "Ctrl key position" submenu but no luck there either.
I have something similar -- my journalctl shows there's a double -option Not sure if from manjaro settings manager keyboard module or from plasma's Dec 14 00:08:34 potatoNUC kdeinit5[981]: org.kde.kcm_keyboard: Failed to run "/usr/bin/setxkbmap -model macintosh -layout us -variant mac -option -option shift:both_capslock,caps:ctrl_modifier" return code: 251 Manually setting the value in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf does work though.
Key remapping also doesn't work for me. I can select any remapping option I want, the configuration is remembered and correctly reappears after restarts but no behaviour is actually changed. I have tried also remapping Alt/Win - also no change. This has been happening since I first tried months ago. Operating System: KDE neon 5.20 KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.77.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.4.0-58-generic OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i7-3520M CPU @ 2.90GHz Memory: 7,5 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Mesa DRI Intel® HD Graphics 4000
This works for me, please confirm if this is still an issue. Please also include output of: qdbus org.kde.kded6 /Layouts org.kde.KeyboardLayouts.getLayout as it will confirm the Keyboard daemon is still active
I just briefly tested this on Neon 6.0 and remapping Caps Lock as Ctrl works OK now. That qdbus call returns an error though: wincak@wincak-tablet:~$ qdbus org.kde.kded6 /Layouts org.kde.KeyboardLayouts.getLayout Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject No such object path '/Layouts'