Hi Mike, > Anyone got a pointer to the patch?
Below is an old posting that contains a patch for the modifier keys on OS X. I've just verified that the same patch and instructions also work for LyX 1.3.6 and Qt/Mac 3.3.5. The end result should be that your Command key maps to LyX's meta key (M-...), and your Control key (as well as Caps Lock, if you're using uControl :-) to LyX's control key (C-...). You can find a patched binary distribution at http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~jason/temp/LyX-1.3.6-2Mac-keypatch.dmg. It doesn't include the new installer script, so you might prefer to install using the official binary, then drag the patched LyX.app over the installed one to replace it. I can't guarantee the binary will be there forever, but I haven't gotten around to either lobbying to make these bindings the default or proposing a more flexible solution, so I'll keep it up as long as I can. regards, -j Jason Woodard Begin forwarded message: From: Jason Woodard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: November 22, 2004 12:19:46 PM GMT+08:00 To: LyX-Users <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> Cc: Chris Menzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Qt mods: LyX/Mac modifier keys Hi, Following an earlier discussion of how to change the modifier key bindings for Mac OS X, Chris Menzel asked me to post the changes I made to build a "fixed" version of 1.3.4: > Can you make your changes to Qt available so that Mac folks like me > don't have to ask you to recompile LyX every time a new version becomes > available? :-) I'd like to compile 1.3.5, but definitely need to avoid > that nasty, non-emacsy Ctrl->Cmd key mapping. The patch needed for Qt 3.3.3 / LyX 1.3.5 is actually the same as the one I posted in September, but I'm reposting it at the end of this note for convenience. To build 1.3.5, I downloaded the source distribution from ftp.lyx.org and followed the instructions in README.MacOSX, using Qt 3.3.3 and the configuration flags "to make a build that works with both 10.2 and 10.3." The only thing I did differently was to apply a patch file before compiling Qt. To create the patch file, cut and paste the text at the end of this note into a plain text file; call it anything and put it anywhere you like. (You can even paste the whole note--the patch program is very forgiving.) Then, from the top of the Qt source hierarchy, issue the command: patch -p0 < YOUR-PATCH-FILE where YOUR-PATCH-FILE is of course the path to the patch file you created. Patch should respond with: patching file src/kernel/qapplication_mac.cpp Hunk #1 succeeded at 1225 (offset 281 lines). That's it--the rest of the build should work as advertised. (And now that you know how to fish, I shouldn't mention that I've posted a new binary at http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~jason/temp/lyx-1.3.5_macos-aqua-emacs.dmg, but there it is :-) Please let me know if you encounter any difficulties. regards, -j Jason Woodard [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- src/kernel/qapplication_mac.cpp.orig Thu Jun 19 01:35:24 2003 +++ src/kernel/qapplication_mac.cpp Wed Sep 15 14:39:45 2004 @@ -944,11 +944,11 @@ static key_sym modifier_syms[] = { { shiftKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::ShiftButton) }, { rightShiftKeyBit, MAP_KEY(Qt::ShiftButton) }, -{ controlKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::MetaButton) }, -{ rightControlKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::MetaButton) }, -{ cmdKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::ControlButton) }, -{ optionKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::AltButton) }, -{ rightOptionKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::AltButton) }, +{ controlKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::ControlButton) }, +{ rightControlKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::ControlButton) }, +{ cmdKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::AltButton) }, +// { optionKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::AltButton) }, +// { rightOptionKey, MAP_KEY(Qt::AltButton) }, { kEventKeyModifierNumLockMask, MAP_KEY(Qt::Keypad) }, { 0, MAP_KEY(0) } }; static int get_modifiers(int key, bool from_mouse=FALSE)
