laptop layout

[Tony Baechler]

Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> You have online help with speakup by pressing the combination of the
> speakup key plus F1. Since the caps lock is used as the speakup key,
> you have to press the combination of shift plus caps lock to get the
> usual caps lock function.
>   



Hi,

Yes, this reminds me of something I've been meaning to ask.  I'm not 
using a laptop and I don't need the laptop layout.  Is there a simple 
way to set the caps lock to work normally?  I think I need to do 
something with the keymap but I'm not entirely sure what.  I think that 
I could normally make a custom keymap and load that as part of the 
kernel command line on boot, but since Speakup is built in and changes 
the keyboard on its own, I'm not sure that a custom keymap is what I 
want.  Mostly I just want to press caps lock and have it work without 
holding down the shift key.

Perhaps a new feature could be a dummy file called capslock which could 
be set to 1 for laptop and 0 for desktop layout or something.  I have 
looked at the files under /sys/module/speakup but didn't find anything 
directly related to what I'm asking, but I don't know what all of them 
do and they aren't clearly documented.