Keyboard and Mouse

Keyboard

Shortcuts

Run the Tweak Tool (apt install gnome-tweak-tool):

  • Keyboard and Mouse

  • Additional Layout Options

  • Ctrl position to Caps Lock as Ctrl

  • Caps Lock behaviour to Caps is also a Ctrl

Keyboard Issues

Caps Lock

Inverted on start-up.

From Sometimes Caps Lock works inverted, I ran:

setleds -caps
xmodmap -e "remove lock = Caps_Lock"
setxkbmap -option

Note: Only the final command didn’t throw an error, but the issue was fixed.

UK

Losing the UK keyboard layout:

  • Settings

  • Region and Language

  • Input Sources - Add English (US), remove English (US).

Mouse

Enable the right click

  • Run the Tweak Tool

  • Keyboard and Mouse

  • Mouse Click Emulation

  • Tick Area