Swap caps and escape

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I want to remap caps lock to escape, and ideally remap escape to caps lock also (not that important to me).

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Chromium: Version 126.0.6478.191 (64-bit)
Platform: 15886.67.19.2 (Developer Build - root) stable-channel amd64-openfyde
Channel: stable-channel
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2

I found a hack to fix this. I created a custom extension from https://github.com/google/extra-keyboards-for-chrome-os/tree/master/capslockremap as a base. Just use the following as the background.js instead:

let contextID = -1;
let lastRemappedKeyEvent = undefined;
let ctrlKey = false;
 
chrome.input.ime.onFocus.addListener(function(context) {
  contextID = context.contextID;
});
 
chrome.input.ime.onBlur.addListener(function(context) {
  contextID = -1;
});
 
function isCapsLock(keyData) {
   return (keyData.code == "CapsLock");
};
 
chrome.input.ime.onKeyEvent.addListener(
    function(engineID, keyData) {
      let handled = false;
      
      if (isCapsLock(keyData)) { 
        keyData.code = "Escape";
        keyData.key = "Escape";
        keyData.capsLock = false;
        chrome.input.ime.sendKeyEvents({"contextID": contextID, "keyData": [keyData]});
        handled = true;
      }
      
      return handled;
});
3

The mentioned hack doesn’t work for me. I changed the js file as informed and also updated the manifest.json to work with manifest_version v3. But no changes in the behaviour of my capslock key.

Any other solutions please ?

4

I am pretty sure it only works with manifest v2