Re: 1.3a1 - (Was: Re: Where's Ben?)
Re: 1.3a1 - (Was: Re: Where's Ben?)
- Subject: Re: 1.3a1 - (Was: Re: Where's Ben?)
- From: "Ambrose Li" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:47:57 -0500
[I forgot to Reply All again....]
On 20/11/2007, Derek Fawcus <email@hidden> wrote:
> I was thinking of a nasty hack since I often use synergy with my macbook.
>
> I noticed when I was playing around creating a keymapping file that
> the mac sort of treats caps lock as a shift level, but I personally
> have no use for caps lock.
>
> So I've been meaning to experiment with adding other characters on
> the caps lock 'modifier' so that it could work a bit like AltGr.
>
> Then I'd make my synergy client on the mac map altgr to the sequence
> caps lock on, <key>, caps lock off.
>
> That way I can have Alt_L, Meta_L/Cmd_L, Alt_R, Meta_R/Cmd_R, _and_ ISO_Shift_level3/AltGR
>
> e.g. 'z' with caps lock could generate omega.
Hmm. I've never noticed that.
But then I just tried it. It kind of works, but the rest of MacOS X
still sees the Caps Lock and processes it, interfering the
xmodmapping. So say if I do...
xmodmap -e 'keycode 65 = Multi_key'
then pressing "Caps Lock a a" would give me an *uppercase*
Å... :-/
--
cheers,
-ambrose
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