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