How to disable the Caps Lock key on Ubuntu

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I dont like Caps Lock, it's the the most unnecessary key on the keyboard in my opinion. I hardly ever write more than couple of words in capitals, but often accidently hit the key; suddenly finding myself TYPING IN ALL CAPS LIKE A SCREAMING MONKEY. Here’s an easy way to disable your Ubuntu’s Caps Lock key.

1. Install dconf

I already had this installed

$ sudo apt install dconf-tools

2. Disable caps lock (reenable by pressing both shift keys at once)

$ setxkbmap -option "caps:none"
$ setxkbmap -option "shift:both_capslock"

I did only disable for now.

-- UPDATE

This works but running this automatically is of course what was missing in this post so I added step 3 

3. Add this to your .bashrc file

vim .bashrc

See also: How to disable the Caps Lock key on Mac