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Remapping CapsLock to Escape

Do you use your CapsLock? Perhaps you like shouting at people. If you're a vim user, I suggest remapping it to Escape or at least something more useful.

Office Space (1999)

On Ubuntu it's so easy to remap escape:

bash
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources xkb-options "['caps:escape']"

If you decide you don't like it, reset it:

bash
gsettings reset org.gnome.desktop.input-sources xkb-options