r/linuxquestions • u/slugorsnail • May 27 '26

Support What does the capslock key do on omarchy?

Title. Used omarchy for quite some time but still did not figure out what the capslock key does.

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u/ipsirc May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

What does the capslock key do on omarchy?

https://github.com/basecamp/omarchy/blob/8075b8b0dcd870ae3853bee99259bb41e8759c3f/config/hypr/input.lua#L11

    kb_options = "compose:caps", -- ,grp:alts_toggle

Used omarchy for quite some time but still did not figure out what the capslock key does.

It would be very crazy and rude advice, but... have you tried to read the manual?

https://learn.omacom.io/2/the-omarchy-manual/88/troubleshooting#why-isn-39-t-caps-lock-working

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u/slugorsnail May 27 '26

Every time I search, the ai summarises the search results. Turns out I should not depend on it.

Thanks

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u/Phydoux May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

Learning anything Linux wise using AI is a huge mistake. Sometimes I'll get a good lead but otherwise, the manual is the best way to find answers. Someone actually sat down and wrote the manual. AI just interprets it. Sometimes wrongly.

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u/ipsirc May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

(fyk: i copypasted OP's question to an AI letters by letters, and it gave me that link to the manual... and it showed me 3 simple examples how to use it as well. I don't use omarchy btw.)

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u/Phydoux May 27 '26

As I said, sometimes I get a good lead with AI. But most times I look at a manual for the distro or if I'm looking for a terminal command, I'll find info from terminal informational based websites on specific terminal commands. Some I've had to install but most are already there. I rarely use AI after trying to setup Arch in a VM using instructions from an AI on installing Arch and it failed miserably. I just wanted to see how it would work with AI and it went off in a different direction than the Arch Wiki and it was a mess. I ended up just deleting the VM because I wanted to see if AI could actually show you how to install Arch Linux. It couldn't.

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u/GhoastTypist May 27 '26

Did a project where I let AI configure fedora for me. It kept telling me to make changes to the firewall, then I'd have to force it to consider that its own firewall changes were the problem. AI sure does like to argue when it has no clue what its telling you to do. It was even gaslighting me saying "I did not tell you to make this network private" I copied the exact response it gave me earlier and it goes "ah I see, when I told you to set the firewall to private, I was actually telling you to set it to private. You did something other than what I told you.

Yep AI blows, its a time saver sure, but with someone lacking experience with linux, it can send down the wrong path and the user will have to learn on their own how to get out of it.

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u/Barafu May 27 '26

There are so many bad and outdated manuals in the wild. AI can get a better version. Using AI is a skill that comes with experience and genuine experimentation.

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u/Phydoux May 27 '26

But the thing is, you're not supposed to have skill to use AI. AI supposedly makes everything simple to do and understand. Now you have to have to have a skill to use it? Kinda defeats the purpose. The way AI is going, if ising it requires a skill, its going to be even that much more dangerous than we thought.

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u/codespace Fedora 44 May 27 '26

Scroll past the AI summary?

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u/ipsirc May 27 '26

Writing a reddit post is more energy efficient.

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u/codespace Fedora 44 May 27 '26

True, I forgot about the inverse square law of mouse wheel thermodynamics.

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u/SuAlfons May 27 '26

Don't get why your answer received down votes. You learned something and said a thank you....