Make Caps Lock Great Again By Remapping It With Xmodmap

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There's this one key that's in a prime location on your keyboard which serves literally no purpose and that's the caps lock key so what we're going to do today is re-purpose that key by remapping it within xmodmap to something a bit more useful, I think that Escape might be a better use for it.

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