Donald Allen dixit (2009-07-22, 20:07): > > people change the setting to Mod2Mask to use the Windows key, but the > > current default of Mod1Mask will work out of the box for anyone who doesn't > > have a Windows/Apple/diamond key. > > That's true. But it also conflicts with a widely-available UI > convention, alt-based keyboard accelerators. And there are other > possible defaults that use only ctrl and alt that don't exhibit this > conflict. > > > > > If the only modifier keys on your keyboard are CTRL and ALT, I suggest > > mapping one ALT key to Mod1 and the other to Mod2. I've noticed that I > > rarely use the modifier keys on the right-hand side anyway... > > Good idea.
Unless you happen to belong to the 95% (or so) of world population that doesn't use an US keyboard-layout and often needs altgr for entering diacritics and such. -- [a]
