Remapping Caps Lock to Control in Ubuntu 14.04

Remapping Caps Lock to Control in 14.04 was one of the biggest headaches in a long long time. But here is what you have to do: this link shows you how you can use xkb to make modifications to key functions. But it does not list all possible modifications that exist. To see what modifications xkb already provides, take a look at /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols. There are files called ctrl and capslock and such. The file ctrl, for example, has a modification called nocaps. You can now use this modification from command line by saying: setxkbmap -option "ctrl:nocaps". Another modification I liked was "shift:both_capslock", which toggles caps lock when you press both shift keys together. To be continued…