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Adam Ryczkowski
Asked: 2013-12-13 05:50:26 +0800 CST

How to change ibus input method shortcut to Shift+Caps Lock?

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I like how the different keyboard layouts are handled in Ubuntu - I can customize the switching keyboard shortcut to Shift+Caps Lock, I can rig the Caps Lock keyboard LED to show the alternate keyboard layout...

But I find it much more convenient to use the ibus transliteration stuff instead of switching the keyboard layouts. I understand, that keyboard layouts are a completely different thing and entirely unrelated to the ibus stuff.

I'd like to mimic the keyboard layout handling behavior with ibus - specifically switching the input methods with Shift+Caps Lock (and as a bonus - rigging the LED to show if the alternate input method is active)

On ibus-setup I see no way to set the next input method as Shift+Caps Lock.

I tried the following values:

  • <Shift>+caps-lock
  • <Shift>+CapsLock
  • <Shift>+Caps
  • <Shift>+Caps Lock

The problem might be that I don't know how to spell the "Caps lock" properly for ibus...

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1 Answers

  1. I guess the problem can be solved from the point of Linux Mint, where the ibus-setup application's capturing pressed key window is not broken.

    The correct spelling is Caps_Lock... enter image description here

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