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In Windows 10 when I press the Caps Lock key, I can type numbers and other special characters. Now, in Ubuntu 18.04, I have to keep pressing the shift button to do that. Since I switched from Windows 10 to Ubuntu 18.04, this was my biggest problem.

Also how can I remap my own custom keyboard layout? I searched a lot about this, but I can't find any comprehensible updated tutorial to do this.

K7AAY
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  • Does this answer your question? [How do I install a keyboard layout?](https://askubuntu.com/questions/976797/how-do-i-install-a-keyboard-layout) – K7AAY Apr 14 '20 at 17:10
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    @K7AAY: The main question is reasonably not a duplicate of the question you linked to, is it? – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Apr 14 '20 at 18:16
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    It answers "Also how can I remap my own custom keyboard layout? I searched a lot about this, but I can't find any comprehensible updated tutorial to do this." For the future, please submit a separate Ask Ubuntu question for each question you have as per "Your questions should be reasonably scoped" from https://askubuntu.com/help/dont-ask . Also, use https://askubuntu.com/search to see if your question has been asked before as per https://askubuntu.com/help/on-topic – K7AAY Apr 14 '20 at 18:30
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    Does this answer your question? [How to remap Caps Lock key to Shift Left key?](https://askubuntu.com/questions/371394/how-to-remap-caps-lock-key-to-shift-left-key) – karel Apr 15 '20 at 01:22
  • @K7AAY: Fair enough, and agreed. – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Apr 16 '20 at 18:00

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[Answering the first question in your question. For the future, please submit a separate Ask Ubuntu question for each question you have.]

Install the gnome-tweaks package, if you haven't already done so.

sudo apt install gnome-tweaks

Then start Tweaks, navigate to Keyboard & Mouse -> Additional Layout Options -> Caps Lock behavior, and select Caps Lock toggles ShiftLock (affects all keys).

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