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Re: [Question #69837]: capslock doesn't write numbers on azerty keyboard

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From: Yves Bruggeman <question69837@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:50:19 -0000
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Question #69837 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/69837

Yves Bruggeman posted a new comment:
CapsLock only acts on keys of type *ALPHABETIC
Keys <AE01> to <AE10> belong to type FOUR_LEVEL as can be found from doing "xkbcomp -xkb :0 -"
By changing their type to FOUR_LEVEL_ALPHABETIC they will also be modified by CapsLock and your AZERTY keyboard will implement the MS Windows "feature".

in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/be (or fr for French AZERTY) change
definitions as below:

key <AE01>  { type= "FOUR_LEVEL_ALPHABETIC", [ ampersand,          1,
bar,   exclamdown ]  };

Do the same thing for keys up to <AE10> restart X and voila, your Windows users will feel
at home in this strange Linux environment ...

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