Remap caps lock to behave like escape on press and control on hold on Xorg

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  • caps2esc

    Discontinued A lazy way to configure the capslock key as ESC + Ctrl (by alexandre-labs)

  • There are instructions on https://github.com/alexandre-labs/caps2esc although they may be out of date.

  • xremap

    Key remapper for X11 and Wayland

  • If they are, it seems that https://github.com/k0kubun/xremap should also work.

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  • xcape

    Linux utility to configure modifier keys to act as other keys when pressed and released on their own.

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