SOLVED: Dying lshift key=> how to remap caps lock to shift, if possible please?

[ericmarceau]

Have a look at this earlier posting by one of the Community's respected and very helpful members:

Make your own custom keyboard layout for Linux

An introduction which may be safely skipped A desire for custom keyboard layout is not very common, but it is in no sense unique. Usually, an interest to fancy keyboard layouts is inherent to multilingual persons. They are programmers, translators, journalists, (archeo-) linguists, touch-typists and simply people who do not have characters of their second or first language printed on the keys of their keyboards. Common denominator of their reasons for such a desire can be expressed in one word:…

The other option is to look at this article (also previously mentioned on this site):

Remap keys in the keyboard in Ubuntu

Admittedly "adjacent" to the topic, you may also wish to look at

How to include Mate custom keybinding in application package?

Hello, I am packaging an application for visually impaired and I would like to have a keybinding packaged with that as well, so that the app can be easily launched. Any idea how to do that? I thought I would package a gsettings override, something like ``` [org/mate/desktop/keybindings/custom0] action='lios' binding='<Alt><Mod4>l' name='Linux Intelligent OCR Software' ``` But what if there is already "custom0" keybinding defined? Thank you.