With Caps remapped, after emulating escape two times, it stops working about xcape HOT 5 CLOSED

Oh, I'm running latest master.

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As you are probably aware, the option ctrl:nocaps results in two Control_L keys. It is this duplicated key which seem to be the problem. As proof of that the following xmodmap commands also produce this problem:

remove Lock = Caps_Lock keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L

I have been able to work around this issue by using a different XkbOption, namely, caps:ctrl_modifier. This results in the caps key using the Caps_Lock keysym, but being treated as a control key. xcape can then be run with ``xcape -e 'Caps_Lock=Escape' to get the desired behaviour.

Unfortunately, it is not possible to then map the escape key to become a caps lock. As doing so results in two keys using the Caps_Lock keysym, and the crashing occurs once again.

Is support for multiple keys using the same keysym something that could be added to xcape? If so, I may take a look at doing so when time permits.

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I have been remapping Caps Lock to Control using the GUI in GNOME and that always worked. I'm not sure how to reproduce the problem on my machine running Linux Mint.

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@benarmston Thanks for the info, I'm using caps:ctrl_modifier now in my X config, as I don't really care about remapping Esc to Caps. This way it seems to work fine.

@alols I believe you can do setxkbmap -option 'ctrl:nocaps' to try to reproduce. Although, after updating to latest master I can't reproduce it by myself anymore.

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@dmedvinsky I assume this means I can close the issue now.

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