Unset Caps Lock from being Super

[Doug]

On 09/14/2014 10:50 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> For a while I used an external keyboard on my laptop. It was a 22y old
> keyboard (IBM Model M) and has no Super (Windows) key.
>
> So I put in a tweak that remaps CapsLock to Super.
>
> Snag is, I have now moved that keyboard to my work PC and need to undo
> the tweak...
>
> And I can't remember where it is.
>
> It's not an `xmodmap` line in .bashrc, as far as I can see. Ubuntu
> 14.04 has removed the keyboard options setting in System Preferences
> for doing it, too. So I think I put it in a config file somewhere but
> I can't find it. I have tried grep on my ~ with "super" but it found
> nothing.
>
> Any ideas?
>
It sounds like you somehow put a modification into the keyboard itself.
If not, then the keyboard should work as a normal k/b on any OS you
plug it in to. But, from your earlier description, you put the mod
into the software of the OS. It obvious matters. If you modified the 
keyboard, you can probably see the wiring change and undo it. If not,
as I say, the k/b should work directly with your work computer.

Maybe I'm missing something. Are you now using a keyboard that has
a Win key on that computer? Well, so what? Just keep using the
CapsLock for Win key, like you've always been doing. And doesn't the
Win key _also_ work as a Win key? all you've lost is caps lock,
which hardly ever gets used by anybody anymore.

As it happens, I too am a fan of the IBM model M, of which I have two 
full size and one without the number pad, the latter for use with my 
laptop.  The only Windows I know of that actually _requires_ the
Win key is Windows 8 /8.1. The Win key may be substituted by something
like ctrl-shift-esc, all pushed at once. (I think I have that right.)
At any rate, I found a program that can modify the key layout
_within_ Windows 8.1, and I mapped the * key above the number board
on the full-size model M so that Win 8.w will recognize it. It works
even on the log-in, so when I see that rainbow screen, I just push
that * key and I get the log-in. As you can see, I'm now working in
Linux, as I do most of the time, and the * key still works as it
normally would. Only Windows 8.1, with the software mod in _it_ sees
that key as a Win key. If I had to use the short k/b on Wion 8.1, I
would probably map the "HOME" key to be a Win key. (I use the right
ALT key as a compose key.)

--doug