On Wed, 5 Jul 2023, at 01:08, Farley, Peter wrote: > I tend to wear out the keycaps long before the rest of the keyboard > gets old and cranky. Replacement keycap stickers work for a while, but > I wear them out too.
I use Dymo-tape to make my own replacement legends; sometimes taking advantage of the high visibility black (print) on yellow (tape) tapes to make certain keys easier to see at dusk. I paint over them with clear nail-varnish, which significantly reduces the likelihood of their edges beginning to peel, and also lengthens the time the new labels stay legible. When they get hard to read, I peel them off, clean the adhesive off the key (with isopropyl alcohol, as used for cleaning tape heads on open-reel tape machines etc) and replace the Dymo tape legend. It's sometimes hard to find an edge to peel off an illegible Dymo label but a very sharp craft knife or the point of the smallest jeweller's screwdriver in the set helps with that. Maybe my next laptop will have backlit keys. But the most-recent new purchases didn't (which is annoying but other aspects of their hardware spec mattered more). Anyway, for all I know, the backlit keyboards may have their own problems... -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
