eclipse-theia/theia

Use capslock as an additional modifier key

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#7,653 opened on Apr 23, 2020

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Description

Feature Description:

I would like to use capslock as an additional modifier key.

In vscode I do this by making capslock an "additional hyper" (in the kde settings, I am on Linux). Then, I can bind meta+<key> to a command (so actually the windows key and capslock are then the same). This is my xmodmap output

shift       Shift_L (0x32),  Shift_R (0x3e)
lock      
control     Control_L (0x25),  Control_R (0x69)
mod1        Alt_L (0x40),  Meta_L (0xcd)
mod2        Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3      
mod4        Hyper_L (0x42),  Super_L (0x85),  Super_R (0x86),  Super_L (0xce),  Hyper_L (0xcf)
mod5        ISO_Level3_Shift (0x5c),  Mode_switch (0xcb)

Not sure if possible to do this in the browser (I am using theia via gitpod).

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Investigate the keybinding system in Theia, particularly how modifier keys like Caps Lock are handled within the browser environment.
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