On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 04:10:58PM -0400, Brent Yorgey wrote:
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 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. [...] 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.
[...] 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.
I never cease to be amazed at these things. Who would have thought? I haven't found any such combinations yet, and hopefully I won't. I suspect not. back in '88 they probably wouldn't have thought to do that to a keyboard... I hope.
Anyway, I at least have caps-lock unmapped. =)
:) A