Re: 1.3a1
Re: 1.3a1
- Subject: Re: 1.3a1
- From: Bill Campbell <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:03:41 -0800
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2007, Ambrose Li wrote:
>On 21/11/2007, Martin Costabel <email@hidden> wrote:
>> OTOH, the second wish of being consistent with X11 programs on other
>> machines can only very incompletely be satisfied, because those other
>> machines usually have a lot more keys then Apple keyboards.
>
>Personally I feel that this is only half-true, and the reason is how
>the "Command" key has to be handled in Apple's X.
>
>Functionally, Mode_switch does the same thing as Option and
>Meta ("Alt") does the same thing as Command so theoretically the
>Mac should have enough keys, and if mapped this way the
>keys IMHO corresponds even quite well to the rest of OS X.
The comments below relate to Tiger on a PPC Mac Mini as my copy of Leopard
hasn't arrived yet.
This is more confusing for me as most of my time is spent on a Mac Mini
connected to a 4-port Belkin KVM switch with a USB/PS2 adapter and a PS/2
Microsoft Natural keyboard (early style with the raiser in the front). I
don't worry about the mouse combo keys as I have a 3-button Logitech mouse.
The other machines on the KVM now are two Linux boxes and an old 450MhZ G4
tower running OS X 10.3.9.
As it stands now, the left and right keys with the little Windows logo
function as the Apple Command key. The right ALT key seems to function as
the Apple Option key (e.g. holding the right ALT-WIN keys functions as
Command-Option would with the ``+'' and ``-'' keys to zoom in an out, but
this doesn't do the same thing with the two left keys.
I've also had many cases where I would end up in upper case in xterms when
I accidentally pressed the CapsLock key with some other key (e.g. shift,
alt, ctrl, ...). Frequently I can try various key combinations to get out
of the CapsLock mode, but have had occassions when it seemed that only a
reboot would cure it.
>Alt is IMHO a fairly foreign key itself as far as X goes, a holdover
>from the Windows world I might say, and its non-existence
>really should not affect any X program. But it does. So sad.
>This is the Linux world's fault, not us =P
>
>I hope I'm awake enough when I wrote this.
>--
>cheers,
>-ambrose
>
>Yahoo and Gmail must die. Yes, I use them, but they still must die.
>PS: Don't trust everything you read in Wikipedia. (Very Important)
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| | >Re: 1.3a1 (From: Artemio Gonzalez Lopez <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: 1.3a1 (From: Martin Costabel <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: 1.3a1 (From: Mick Mueck <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: 1.3a1 (From: Martin Costabel <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: 1.3a1 (From: "Ambrose Li" <email@hidden>) |