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localectl does not play nice with custom keymaps and X11
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@ -81,4 +81,12 @@ keycode 58 = Control
Then you can (optionally) re-zip it with 'sudo gzip [filename]' and set it as your keymap with 'sudo localectl set-keymap [filename without .map extention]'. Then you can (optionally) re-zip it with 'sudo gzip [filename]' and set it as your keymap with 'sudo localectl set-keymap [filename without .map extention]'.
There we go! There we go!
Our caps lock key is now a second control key! Not that with 'localectl', this has also set caps lock as a second control key for X as well! Our caps lock key is now a second control key!
Note that localectl does not seem to propogate our change to X11, unfortuanately.
To do it in X as well, simply run
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setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps
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in your .xinitrc.