Best Way to Remap Caps Lock to Esc with Wayland

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Slightly different, since this does escape on tap and control on chord, but you might like it. This should be layout-neutral.

services.interception-tools =
  let
    itools = pkgs.interception-tools;
    itools-caps = pkgs.interception-tools-plugins.caps2esc;
  in
  {
    enable = true;
    plugins = [ itools-caps ];
    # requires explicit paths: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/126681
    udevmonConfig = pkgs.lib.mkDefault ''
      - JOB: "${itools}/bin/intercept -g $DEVNODE | ${itools-caps}/bin/caps2esc -m 1 | ${itools}/bin/uinput -d $DEVNODE"
        DEVICE:
          EVENTS:
            EV_KEY: [KEY_CAPSLOCK, KEY_ESC]
    '';
  };

I set -m 1 here which only remaps caps lock, but there are a few different modes..

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