A related issue is that of disabling the insert key in emacs. Emacs is sufficiently powerful that the insert key is unnecessary--this isn't Microsoft Word--and so there should be an easy way to disable that.
Saturday, January 5, 2008
Gnome and Caps Lock
Gnome still (as of Gutsy Gibbon) doesn't have an option under "Keyboard Preferences | Layout Options | CapsLock key behavior" to simply disable the caps lock altogether. This is a common enough need that a number of people have provided solutions for a variety of environments. Some are collected here. KDE provides this feature, as opposed to the esoteric options provided by Gnome.
A related issue is that of disabling the insert key in emacs. Emacs is sufficiently powerful that the insert key is unnecessary--this isn't Microsoft Word--and so there should be an easy way to disable that.
A related issue is that of disabling the insert key in emacs. Emacs is sufficiently powerful that the insert key is unnecessary--this isn't Microsoft Word--and so there should be an easy way to disable that.
Labels:
caps lock,
Gnome,
insert key,
KDE
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