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IF YOU DON'T WANT TO USE IT DON'T PUSH IT
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All caps really SUCKS!
I totally vote yes.
I hate people that write everything in caps. Looks like they are screaming, like we are too dumb to understand what they are saying.
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Caps Lock, and Scrooll Lock should be banished from the actual Keyboard Layout.
And the Win key should have another icon.
The technology evolved, why not the keyboards?
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I would change this proposal to allow it to be configured in the gnome-keyboard-properties, but not recommend to disable by default. I use Ubuntu heavily for both web and non-web programming, where the caps lock key is very important. Many variables require all caps and it can be difficult on the hands to only use the shift key. This reason will cause your idea to be very highly voted DOWN (I just used my caps lock).
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joeally
wrote on the 12 Mar 08 at 17:33
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To be fair to him there is nothing wrong in having the option to turn caps lock off
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hackel
wrote on the 12 Mar 08 at 17:39
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This is a very bad idea. I use caps lock all the time, legitimately. It's very useful when programming, typing out CONSTANTS and such, or when simply typing out the title page of a document that you want capitalised (though this should be done with character styles, but I digress). There are many legitimate uses for it. It's no more or less useful now than it was with a typewriter--the usage is exactly the same.
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I guess I use caps lock ... about once every twelve months.
It should be an option. +1.
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I never accidentally press the Caps-Lock button.
Those anti-capslock campaigns only apply to Windows (l)users.
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Well, if you gonna disable Caps-Lock, then please only do so when Nigerian is selected as system language.
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mribecky
wrote on the 13 Mar 08 at 10:34
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echo -e "keycode 66 = Caps_Lock\nremove Lock = Caps_Lock\nkeysym Escape = Caps_Lock\nkeysym Caps_Lock = Escape\nadd Lock = Caps_Lock" >~/.Xmodmap
Restart Xorg and now you have switched the Caps Lock and Esc keys, much more useful now.
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maybe you could remap your keys so that your caps-lock button actually presses a "ctrl-alt-backspace." You would get so sick of resetting X, you would eventually learn to not press the button.
Another option is to get a flathead screwdriver. Simply wedge the end of it under the edge of your caps-lock key. Next, press down on the screwdriver's handle, applying pressure upwards on the key, and downwards on the edge of the keyboard. Do this until you hit yourself in the head with your caps-lock key.
There are two easy fixes.
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I would like to disable it on my laptop. Of course this has to be an option, not a default.
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Eldmannen, I agree.
It is difficult to press it accidentally....
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In the System/Preferences/Keyboard window, you can at least change Caps Lock to be something else. Go to the “Layout” tab and to “Layout Options,” and you can have Caps Lock be the “Compose” key (for special characters) instead.
Err, that doesn’t really solve the problem, though! Looking at the keyboard settings program, it really would be painfully easy to add an option to “Caps Lock key behavior” that would simply disable the key altogether. Or, an option could be added to make it the third-level chooser, which would be a lot less worrisome to hit accidentally (since it would need to be combined with another key to have any effect, and it would have no effect anyway in a keyboard layout with no third level).
To everyone who says that this is only a little annoyance, remember that getting rid of little annoyances is how you improve a user experience :)
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ethana2
wrote on the 29 Sep 08 at 03:00
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I use caps lock as backspace.
...I do it by using colemak though... I think a lot of dvorak and even qwerty typists would like the backspace caps key behavior, it needs to get into gnome caps lock key behaviors and out of the colemak layout, stat.
www.colemak.com
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marvo
wrote on the 16 Mar 09 at 08:54
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The capslock key itself is very useful – not because of its silly default OF SWITCHING THE KEY (ups, sorry) of switching the keyboard into capslock mode, but to be redefined as compose key (as Tina_Russell proposed). Now you can easily type "æ × — ½" just by hitting the key formerly known as casplock and two or three other keys afterwards.
As the existence of a compose key in Linux is not too well known this function should possibly become a bit more promoted.
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This is what I did to replace Caps Lock with pipe "|":
echo "setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps" >> ~/.bashrc
echo " xmodmap -e \"keycode 66 = bar\"" >> ~/.bashrc
Next time you login Caps Lock will be replaced by pipe.
This is only tested in Gnome, will work in konsole but not in text mode.
source: http://skrivmaskin.se/linux/artikel.php?id=26
* All you think you know is either knowledge or positions. Most of it is positions. - JLandin, Wikipedia *
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Just do
xmodmap -e "keycode 66 = "
It will completely kill the key.
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For now
xmodmap -e "keycode 66 = "
Works like a charm.
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