[GRLUG] keyboards

[topher at wcsg.org]

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Rob Steenwyk wrote:

> I have no answer to your question... but I have typed on that keyboard
> before, and it is awful! A friend has a 22" iMac and got that keyboard with
> it, I didn't get the point of a netbook sized keyboard with such an enormous
> screen...

Heh, I'm a small keyboard kind of guy. I have a 30" monitor.  I've really
loved my happy hacker board, but it's about 5 times thicker than the apple
one.

> Rob Steenwyk
> rsteenwyk at gmail.com
> 616-723-0226
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 6:00 PM, <topher at wcsg.org> wrote:
>>> This is a little convoluted, so please bear with me.
>>>
>>> I recently bought Apple's smallest keyboard,
>>> http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB869LL/A?mco=NDIyNjYzMw
>>>
>>> I use enlightenment as my window manager, and it has a nice gui for
>>> mapping keys to bindings.  It can handle these meta keys:
>>>
>>> CTRL
>>> ALT
>>> SHIFT
>>> WIN
>>> MOD3
>>> MOD4
>>> MOD5
>>>
>>> As far as I can tell, the CMD key doesn't map to any of these, though I
>>> could be wrong.
>>>
>>> Anyone know how I could figure out what it is, and how to access it?  I'd
>>> rather not use a gnome or KDE mapper, but something lower down, so it's
>>> available to X, or at least E.
>>
>> xmodmap would be the subsystem you're looking for.  Look around for
>> tools that work with it.
>>
>> --
>> :wq
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