[HN Gopher] Caps Lock Behaviour Disabled in Gnome
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       Caps Lock Behaviour Disabled in Gnome
        
       Author : zdw
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2023-09-28 21:26 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | derbOac wrote:
       | I'm curious now about what "caps lock behavior disabled" is, as
       | opposed to "caps lock disabled."
       | 
       | I searched for it and couldn't really find anything that
       | explained it.
        
         | jsnell wrote:
         | I would assume it is "disable this tool changing the behavior".
         | Something like "default" would avoid the ambiguity, but maybe
         | "disabled" works better for other settings the tool can tweak
         | and they want to be consistent?
        
         | mattmerr wrote:
         | My understanding is that the "disabled" radio option just means
         | the Gnome Tweaks program won't override anything. Caps Lock
         | behavior will be the system default, instead of being changed
         | by Gnome Tweaks. The other one is "Gnome Tweaks will override
         | Caps Lock to disable it"
        
         | flipdot wrote:
         | It might mean that the key itself is not disabled and thus free
         | to be bound to some other action, but I agree that the remark
         | sounds a bit odd.
        
       | db48x wrote:
       | Nice. There are a lot of obscure and wonderful options in there,
       | but that is the funniest.
        
       | flipdot wrote:
       | I find the Compose feature to be quite useful, so I used to have
       | Compose key on Caps Lock on Linux. After I've switched back to
       | Windows, I found WinCompose to be a pretty decent equivalent of
       | Compose for Windows, and found out it can also override Caps Lock
       | behaviour (though in about 1% of cases the default Windows Caps
       | Lock behaviour breaks through for a brief moment) and reassign
       | the Caps Lock function to some other, less frequent combination
       | of keys. In my case pressing both Shifts at the same time acts as
       | a Caps Lock toggle.
        
         | solardev wrote:
         | What is a compose feature?
         | 
         | (edit: looked it up, and it seems to be a way to enter accented
         | keyboard characters like e or n. It's standard on macos, and I
         | guess in Linux you bind a key to it?)
        
           | seabass-labrax wrote:
           | It allows you to access more characters than would usually be
           | accessible on the keyboard, such as diacritical marks and
           | currency symbols.
        
             | solardev wrote:
             | Thanks! Sounds like the opt key on Macs or the AltGr key on
             | some international keyboards
        
       | jldugger wrote:
       | Okay, now do colemak in login screen so I can type my password in
       | without having to use a visual keyboard.
        
         | mindslight wrote:
         | Translate your password such that you remember it as the
         | Colemak keycaps as typed on the QWERTY layout? eg foobar ->
         | tyybap.
        
       | dfox wrote:
       | I'm somewhat disturbed by the fact that the list of possible
       | behaviors does not contain equivalent of -xkboption
       | ctrl:swapcaps, ie. swap caps lock and left control.
        
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