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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon susam

Cannot Map Ctrl to Esc

Open hpr1999 opened this issue 4 years ago • 3 comments

Hey there, thanks for creating this!

I'm having trouble running the following command: uncap 0x1B:0x14 0x14:0x11 0x11:0x1B

Which should do the following:

  • Bind CAPS to CTRL
  • Bind ESC to CAPS
  • BIND CTRL to ESC

The last one does NOT work. CAPS successfully acts as CTRL, ESC successfully acts as CAPS. but CTRL continues to be CTRL.

Any idea how I could fix that?

hpr1999 avatar Aug 16 '20 15:08 hpr1999

Would you please try the following command instead and let me know if it works?

uncap 0x14:0xa2 0x1b:0x14 0xa2:0x1b

The virtual-key code needed to remap the left ctrl key is 0xa2. See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/inputdev/virtual-key-codes for the virtual-key codes.

susam avatar Aug 16 '20 19:08 susam

Thank you so much, that worked. I'm so sorry to have bothered you, I actually searched that page but somehow managed to not find the different "controls". Also, weird that my right control didn't work as ESC either. I'll close this now.

hpr1999 avatar Aug 16 '20 21:08 hpr1999

Hey, since the above command is also in the ReadMe, I just wanted to note that rebinding LCTRL as you recommended had weird side effects in Windows for me.

  1. The Alt-Gr / Third-Level-Shift / however you call it on the right of spacebar seems to just enter LCTRL-ALT, which was now ALT and ESC in my case, which was really weird.
  2. Some touchpad gestures started misbehaving, for example tapping with three fingers brought up "project" (win+p) instead whatever I configured. All of that stopped when I stopped rebinding LCTRL with uncap.

I don't know if this is something you can do anything about or if this is some Windows oddity, but I still wanted to mention it.

hpr1999 avatar Aug 17 '20 08:08 hpr1999