Caps lock remap being ignored

[jisensee]

Problem

I have caps lock remapped to ctrl on Fedora but oni is not picking up on that. Everywhere else it works, so this seems to be an oni bug.

Reproduction

Run gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources xkb-options "['caps:ctrl_modifier']" to remap the key.
Try using caps lock instead of ctrl in oni - doesnt work.

Might be related to #2164 and #557 not sure. Feel free to close this if you rather track this in one of the other issues.

[bryphe]

Thanks for logging the issue, @jisensee !

I know SDL does some special handling around CapsLock (in that the keyboard events bubble up differently vs other keys). I'll keep this separate from #2164 and #557 since it may be CapsLock specific 👍

[kartynnik]

Reproduces on Debian under Cinnamon as well (where it is controlled by gsettings set org.gnome.libgnomekbd.keyboard options "['caps\tcaps:ctrl_modifier']").

[bryphe]

Does setxkbmap work?

IE:

setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps

[jisensee]

I changed my setup recently, I no longer use Fedora or software key remaps anymore (got a new fancy keyboard to take care of this now). So unfortunately cant give any feedback an this issue. However, iirc setxbmap worked for me back then.

[JakobOlsson]

I can confirm, Running Fedora 33 with Gnome and using Gnome Tweaks to override CAPS and have it Send Ctrl does not work in Onivim2. It works fine in Neovim, Firefox, Chrome/Chromium, etc.
Pressing CAPS+P or CAPS+SHIFT+P does nothing in Onivim 2 (0.5.9-nightly | 22e5bf4)
But running setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps and then Launching same version of Onivim2, both key combination above works and bring up Buffer/File search and Command Search like as CTRL was pressed.

[vdwees]

I had this issue and was able to fix it in the tweak tool by modifying the remap in two places (I am on pop os):

[JakobOlsson]

Thank You @vdwees, that worked with Gnome 3.38 on Fedora 33 also. CAPS now registers as CTRL key in Onivim2.
I only had the first of the "Tweaks" enabled, "Caps Lock behavior", once I also enabled the second "Tweak" - "Ctrl position", as shown in the screenshots, it worked.

[rogererens]

Also OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE needs the 2 settings as indicated by @vdwees to have CAPS LOCK recognized as CTRL in Onivim, too.
Thanks for pointing this out!