Re: Keyboard and Video issues, Macbook Pro and KVM
Re: Keyboard and Video issues, Macbook Pro and KVM
- Subject: Re: Keyboard and Video issues, Macbook Pro and KVM
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:28:27 -0700
On Sep 10, 2009, at 18:25, Bill Campbell wrote:
I have several related issues on a 15in Macbook Pro running Snow
Leopard 10.6 when using a KVM switch with a Microsoft ``Natural''
4000 keyboard and a 24in 1920x1200 monitor.
First the X11 specific problem, the geometry seems hosed when
bringing the external monitor up from sleep or going back to the
built-in monitor from sleep. Most notably a perl::Tk program
barfs with negative sizes on pack() after bringing up the
external monitor. I can understand X11 might well get the
display geometry on startup so has bogus values until it's
restarted.
Nope, we update the screen geometry whenever you plug in a monitor,
disconnect a monitor, change resolution... I just did this myself and
it's working fine as far as I can tell. Can you please provide a
reduced test case in a bug report at http://xquartz.macosforge.org?
If this is the case, is there any way to get it to
get the current display geometry with restarting X11?
I'm not sure what you mean... restarting X11 will give you updated
geometry as well, but you shouldn't need to...
I have not tried installing this on the Macbook Pro as I am afraid
it will hose the keyboard mapping when using the built-in keyboard.
Am I right here or can I install Intellikey to get these mappings
when using the external keyboard?
/shrug ... http://google.com ?
Currently I am remapping the Option and Command keys using the
System Preferences->Keyboard->Modifier Keys, selecting the
Microsoft keyboard, and switching the Option and Command keys so
they behave almost like an Apple keyboard or using Intellikey.
The problem is that these changes don't stick and have to be
reset every time I either switch between the machines with the
KVM switch or bring the system up from sleep.
That's unfortunate.
Is there any way to get these changes to stick? I would think that
this setting
would be retained once selected for a particular keyboard type.
File a bug report at http://bugreport.apple.com
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