Caps lock works like Caps lock and Backspace on gnu/linux

[diazbastian]

I am very new in this new layout that I started to investigate thanks to a friend, however, I had the misconception that like Colemak, Norman replaced Caps Locks with an additional Backspace key, as indicated by the keyboard map of my system (fedora 30 with GNOME).

However, in the images of the website and here on github, it is shown that Caps lock remains the same as in the QWERTY layout.

Anyway, in the case of my system when I press Caps Lock, it does Caps Lock and Backspace at the same time and it is somewhat disconcerting.

[deekayen]

It probably means to need a keyboard where you can tell the firmware to not lock caps on.

[ewonchang]

It probably means to need a keyboard where you can tell the firmware to not lock caps on.

I'm having the same issue on my Linux laptops, one running KDE and the other one GNOME. It's frustrating that Caps Lock also acts as backspace.

[deekayen]

I don't have a universal solution that will always work. Would it be better if I just set the keylayouts back to caps lock only?

[ewonchang]

I don't have a universal solution that will always work. Would it be better if I just set the keylayouts back to caps lock only?

It would, probably.

If you were to make changes to the layout for Linux users, does that mean it has to be re-submitted to xkeyboard-config and wait for months/years for it to ship with any Linux distro? Just curious.

[deekayen]

The maintainers of xkeyboard are pretty responsive. It's the downstream vendors that take forever to incorporate updates.