I have a Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Cover for my 3rd gen iPad, which is a Bluetooth keyboard. Is there any way to remap the caps lock key so it acts as the control key instead?
IPad – Remap caps lock key on iPad keyboard
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My main answer:
Apple deems this a feature, as documented in their knowledge base. Apple does not document how to disable the delay.
In my experience, if you remap the caps-lock key on Mac OS X (in System Preferences .. Keyboard .. Modifier Keys), and e.g. map it to Control, then the delay goes away while I am logged into Mac OS X. So as koiyu suggests in the comments here, it seems like there is some variation available between the hardware and the keyboard driver.
Remaining questions:
My own problem is that the delay remains when I boot into Ubuntu Linux, and in that context, even when I remap the Caps Lock key to Control, the delay is still present. So the vanilla keyboard driver provided on Ubuntu Linux still suffers from the delay.
So my questions at this point:
How is it that the standard Windows 7 driver has no delay and the Linux driver does have the delay?
How can one replicate disabling the delay in the context of a Linux installation atop the laptop?
Just changing caps lock to key code 63 with PCKeyboardHack works for me. Have you tried setting caps lock no action from System Preferences?
You could also try to use PCKeyboardHack to for example change caps lock to F19 and then use a private.xml like this with KeyRemap4MacBook:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<item>
<name>test</name>
<identifier>test</identifier>
<autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::F19, KeyCode::FN</autogen>
</item>
</root>
Best Answer
Just by using the default software, there is not a way to do this.
Theoretically, someone could write an app for jailbroken iPads to do this, but I did some searching and couldn't find anything.