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I want that pressing Caps lock behave the same as pressing Left Shift+Ctrl within Xubuntu. I use these two a lot as modifiers in conjunction with other keys. The only things I find are switching Caps Lock with other keys, such as escape, ctrl or disable the key altogether.

Dag
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  • Would remapping to hyper or some other nth level modifier be sufficient? – xiota Nov 03 '20 at 12:01
  • @xiota I don't know what you mean and how that would solve my issue. – Dag Nov 04 '20 at 10:28
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    What do you use ctrl+shift for? If you are able to reassign the shortcuts, reassigning caps lock to a different modifier would functionally serve the same purpose as remapping to ctrl+shift. – xiota Nov 04 '20 at 10:32
  • @xiota Sure, I can go thru dozens of applications, but some of them doesn't allow keybinding remappings - Slack is such an example. Besides it is a bigger effort, and not the solution for the question. – Dag Nov 06 '20 at 07:33
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    From some reading ([e.g.](https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/possible-to-xmodmap-two-keys-at-same-time-459410/), [e.g.](https://askubuntu.com/questions/251479/how-to-bind-ctrlarrows-to-home-and-end-keys-xmodmap-does-not-work/303978#303978)), it seems this is not possible with `xmodmap`. Sounds like you'll have to have a service running in the background to do it. – jessexknight Nov 09 '20 at 02:49

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