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Re: Customizing your keyboard experience

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On 2014-03-31, Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
> In article <bpt8pnFacqrU1@mid.individual.net>, Huge
><Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On 2014-03-31, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
> No need to fart about like this. Just go into:
>
>   System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard
>
> and click the Modifier Keys button The dropdown that appears will
> allow you set set what the Caps Lock, CTRL, Option, and Command keys
> do.  Simples.
>

One man's farting around is another man's making sure it works
regardless of which desktop environment he's using.  On a SUSE box I
even figured out how to do the CapsLock/Control switch on the console,
though I forget now how I did it.  It's nice customizing and little
scripts like that are easily bound to keys in most environments.

There are some good OS X programs that allow finegrained keyboard
modifications though I was too cheap to buy them.  On Unix/Linux
obviously the sky's the limit ...  

When I was writing a book I made a backup script and bound it in
Windowmaker to F12.  With one keypress I could backup the right files,
zip it, and send copies to different backup devices.  I was really happy
with how it worked out.

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Customizing your keyboard experience RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-31 12:30 +0000
  Re: Customizing your keyboard experience Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-31 13:27 +0000
    Re: Customizing your keyboard experience Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-31 15:07 +0000
      Re: Customizing your keyboard experience Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-03-31 17:26 +0300
        Re: Customizing your keyboard experience Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-03-31 14:37 +0000
      Re: Customizing your keyboard experience RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-31 14:29 +0000
      Re: Customizing your keyboard experience Tim Watts <tw_usenet@dionic.net> - 2014-03-31 15:35 +0100
  Re: Customizing your keyboard experience Randy Westlund <Vorzakir@invalid.invalid> - 2014-04-01 21:14 +0000
  Re: Customizing your keyboard experience Dario Niedermann <dnied@tiscali.it> - 2014-04-03 11:37 +0200

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