remap Caps Lock key to Shift Left key

remap_caps_lock_key_to_left_shift_key.sh

#!/bin/sh

### inspiration taken from: https://askubuntu.com/questions/371394/how-to-remap-caps-lock-key-to-shift-left-key

set -x
# this will make Caps Lock to act as Shift_L
xmodmap -e "keycode 66 = Shift_L NoSymbol Shift_L" 
echo "xmodmap exit code: $?"
set +x

echo "
To get this change for every session, you can export current keymap and make it to be loaded on every session init using:

xmodmap -pke > ~/.xmodmap__remap_caps_lock_key_to_left_shift_key
echo 'xmodmap ~/.xmodmap__remap_caps_lock_key_to_left_shift_key' >> ~/.xinitrc
"