On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 01:09, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote: > thanks. didn't know about Ducky keyboard. Looks good. Also nice to > hear your experience about Truly Ergonomic keyboard. >
I like it, see my first-hour review here: http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:18154 > no actually i don't know how to make normal letter keys as (ctrl, alt) > modifiers. You'll need a usb hid remapper. (there's a couple for mac > os x i linked on my site but i couldn't verify cuz am now on a 6 years > old powerpc with outdated mac os x) For Windows, Microsoft made a > layout maker. I haven't used it so i don't know if it allows mapping > letter keys as modifier. Have you tried it? > I use Kubuntu Linux. > i don't know much about the subject but from what i read am guessing > it's possible, because each key just send up/down signals. (whether > you are using usb or ps/2 makes a difference too.) > > (am assumbing above that you want to put modifiers in normal letter > key positions. But if all you want to do is swap modifier among > themselves, that's pretty easy. Lots of tools to do that for mac and > windows.) > Actually, most of the modifiers are just switched among themselves. Only Win is in a normal-keyboard location. > But even if you succeded in putting modifiers to letter key positions, > you may run into problems with key ghosting, because the circuits are > desigend to prevent ghosting on qwerty layout only (with mod keys in > their normal positions). Unless your keyboard is actually full n-key- > roll-over. > I doubt that this is n-key rollover, but it is I think 6-key rollover and in any case I personally use sticky keys as I have difficulty pressing more than one key at a time. But in the general sense that is good to know, if other people use the layout they will need to be aware of that. Thanks! > maybe some of these are useful info, but maybe you are quite beyond > that. Thanks for your info too. Good luck. > > just Xah Thanks Xah! I will not be online for the next three weeks, so a reply will be much delayed! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
