Autorun Keyboard Settings for Awesomewm
I like my Caps Lock key to not be a Caps Lock key. Act as Escape when I tap on it. Act as Control when I press it with another key. And never ever enable SHOUT MODE.
This is the third time I’ve done this. This is also the third time I had to look up how to do this. Better save it on the site.
setxcbmap takes care of adding Control functionality and removing Caps Lock behavior. I need xcape for Escape key behavior. Since I’m running Manjaro on my Linux partition this week, I’ll use pamac to install.
$ pamac install xcape
I set up an autostart script to get this in every Awesomewm session.
~/.config/awesome/autorun.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
function run {
if ! pgrep -f $1 ;
then
$@&
fi
}
run setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps
run xcape -e 'Control_L=Escape'
It’s a script, so make sure it’s executable.
$ chmod 755 ~/.config/awesome/autorun.sh
Add one line of code to my rc.lua
to make sure autorun.sh
gets
spawned on startup.
~/.config/awesome/rc.lua
-- {{{ Autorun
awful.spawn.with_shell("~/.config/awesome/autorun.sh")
-- }}}
And that’s it!