Swapping Ctrl with Alt in Ubuntu for Pinky's sake

Swapping Ctrl with Alt in Ubuntu for Pinky's sake

I figure out that I need to make this swapping when my pinky started aching. I also mapped right Alt because I noticed some strange behavior with the window switcher, when using Alt_R. It would automatically switch on release, instead it waited for me to press Enter to do the switch so, I override it with Alt_R. Now it works like a charm and my pinky is very happy!

How it's done:

  touch ~/.Xmodmap

then add contents from Xmodmap


then run:
  xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap

Xmodmap

clear control
clear mod1
keycode 37 = Alt_L Meta_L
keycode 108 = Alt_L Meta_L
keycode 64 = Control_L
add control = Control_L Control_R
add mod1 = Alt_L Meta_L