Did you try swapping or replacing capslock w/ ctrl? Something like this... setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps xmodmap -e "keycode 107 = Control_R" I would

Did you try swapping or replacing capslock w/ ctrl? Something like this... setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps xmodmap -e "keycode 107 = Control_R" I would occasionally experience some pinky pain until I did this. Losing capslock is mostly inconsequential (you can always use upcase-region).