Re: Mavericks remembers keyboards!

From	J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Mavericks remembers keyboards!
Date	2014-04-22 13:50 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<lj6a4f$4f4$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References	<lj509o$b3t$1@dont-email.me> <slrnllct1j.17kv.g.kreme@amelia.local>

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On 4/22/14, 9:52 AM, Lewis wrote:
> In message <lj509o$b3t$1@dont-email.me>
>    J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> wrote:
>> I swapped out my Windows-style keyboard for cleaning.  I plugged in a
>> Mac-style keyboard and in System Preferences, disabled the Caps Lock.
>
>> When I tried the Windows keyboard to see if cleaning had improved
>> functioning, Mavericks remembered to swap the Alt and Opt keys.
>
>> The keyboard worked fine, but I swapped back to the Mac keyboard.
>> Mavericks remembered to disable the Caps Lock.
>
>> It seems to me that before Mavericks, when I swapped keyboards, I'd have
>> to reselect my preferences for the replacement.
>
> Nope, I used to swap keyboards fairly regularly and OS X has always¹
> tracked different keyboards differently. Sometimes it can't TELL that a
> really generic keyboard is different from another really generic
> keyboard, but that's very rare.
>
> ¹ FSVO 'always'
>
I used to have to change preferences when I swapped between Mac and PC 
keyboards. This was the first time I used my Mac keyboard since 
upgrading from 10.4 to 10.8 in 2012.

I've found a thread saying that under 10.6, people using a hub would 
have to redo keyboard preferences every time they plugged in the 
keyboard even it was their only keyboard.

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Mavericks remembers keyboards! J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2014-04-22 01:56 -0400
  Re: Mavericks remembers keyboards! nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-04-22 09:15 -0400
  Re: Mavericks remembers keyboards! Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-04-22 13:52 +0000
    Re: Mavericks remembers keyboards! Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-04-22 07:19 -0700
    Re: Mavericks remembers keyboards! J Burns <burns4@nowhere.com> - 2014-04-22 13:50 -0400

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