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Remap capslock to escape on Trixie Gnome/Wayland
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I got this warning on Debian Trixie with Gnome.

setxkbmap -option "caps:swapescape"
WARNING: Running setxkbmap against an Xwayland server

I was able to successfully remap caps to escape with:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.input-sources xkb-options "['caps:swapescape']"
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