Caps-lock as hotkey

[collinpeters]

I am unable to set the caps lock as the hotkey. I've been using caps lock for a few years now once I realized that it was a useless key on my keyboard. To do this in Kupfer, I had to first disable caps lock as caps lock in Ubuntu. To do that I do:

dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/input-sources/xkb-options "['caps:none']"

However, in Albert I get a 'could not be registered' error. I want to give Albert a shot but I won't be able to change my muscle memory! ;)

[rhoconlinux]

Hey @collinpeters, check out the issue #12 where we kinda figured out a workaround for this.

Cheers!

PS. I don't know what is the keymap name for the "caps lock" key. Sorry, otherwise I would just pasted the solution here.

[ManuelSchneid3r]

Works

[collinpeters]

I'm trying to come back to Albert to give it another try after the omgubuntu article and still can't get Albert to use the caps lock as the launcher. I've edited the ~/.config/albert/albert.conf and tried a few options for hotkey such as hotkey=VoidSymbol and hotkey=Caps_Lock (the former being the value xev gives and the later being something I found online).

Any ideas on what value to set for this? How does Albert determine the values allowed here or what values are invalid?

[idkCpp]

How about this: https://github.com/ManuelSchneid3r/albert/wiki/By-users-for-users#launch-albert-via-single-supermetawindows-key-an-easy-workaround