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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • I use keyd for software remapping now, and I like it a lot more than xkb’s esoteric options. It has functionality for layers like layer:C, where any “passthrough” input will have the defined modifier (or combo like C-S-M), but you can define whatever other bindings inside.

    Long story short, I’ve used it to remap caps, control, shift (with a custom shift layer for some symbols), and meta, with overloads, double tap/hold into layers, oneshots, timeouts, and all sorts of (surprisingly fluid) nonsense. It’s so much easier than wading through xkb options for me.

    To sidestep the question slightly less, I always got rid of capslock altogether instead of swapping. That still leaves true escape to be hit accidentally, but I think there should be an option to change escape too?

    Edit: what I always used was

    # make CapsLock behave like Ctrl:
    setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps
    
    # make short-pressed Ctrl behave like Escape:
    xcape -e 'Control_L=Escape'
    

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  • I think it’s a somewhat common side effect that usually goes away. I also get tension-like headaches from time to time, but I’ve always been like that.

    Adhering to the routine of meds really helps, but ya know lol. I’d just mention the side effect and obviously look into it if it gets worse. I only had a few days of that at first with focalin, I imagine Adderall would be similar.