Powertoys: Utility to map caps lock to control, escape, etc

[cowens]

Currently you have to edit the registry manually or load some file from the internet to the registry to map the useless caps lock key to a useful key like control. A power toy that does this would be nice.

[Dilski]

Caps2ctrl in sysinternals should be moved to this project IMO

On Sun, 12 May 2019, 12:29 Chas. J. Owens IV, [e-mail]
wrote:

Currently you have to edit the registry manually or load some file from
the internet to the registry to map the useless caps lock key to a useful
key like control. A power toy that does this would be nice.

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[rerednaw]

Or map it to switch keyboard languages

[martinandersen3d]

For key remapping, there is two good programs, the powertool team can get inspiration from:

SharpKeys and KeyTweak

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/map-any-key-to-any-key-on-windows-xp-vista/
https://medium.com/@joewatanachote/how-to-remap-lenovo-ideapad-710s-shift-key-layout-c205843f78be

OSX does also have some built in utility:

[crutkas]

this should be done with just normal key to key remapping

[enricogior]

The new Keyboard Manager module is now available in 0.18 https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/releases