On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 07:31:07PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 03:20:19PM -0400, Brent Yorgey wrote:
My laptop has no windows key, so for the past year or so I've just been using alt as mod, and dealing with the fact that I can't use some shortcuts involving alt in various applications (emacs, irssi, etc.). Then just today I realized that I can map my left and right alt keys separately! So I mapped left alt to Mod3 and use that as my mod key, and the right alt key went on happily being good old alt. Now I can once again use all those alt shortcuts.
Now I also feel dumb. So I thought I would share just in case anyone else hasn't figured this out either. =)
my clicky old ibm model m has no windows key, so I mapped the caps-lock as mod leaving me with no collisions with the alt key. Plus I have no caps-lock key anymore avoiding the tYPICAL pROBLEM tHERE.
I liked it so much that now all my keyboards are mapped that way :)
A
This is a good idea, and I actually tried this a while ago, but there were some key combinations with caps-lock that my keyboard generated no events for. This is when I learned that in order to save space/materials/money, keyboards are constructed in such a way that there are quite a few key combinations between which the hardware can't tell the difference, since there is not a dedicated wire for each key. Anyway, I at least have caps-lock unmapped. =) -Brent