On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Tuomo Valkonen wrote:
> As those who use the scratchpad and do not use a Finnish/Swedish or rather
> similar keyboard know, the default toggle key isn't portable between
> diffirent keyboard layouts. Therefore it should be changed. What key do
> people use for this purpose? Only number, letter and special (non-character)
> keys are portable. (Comma and period are portable to most layouts - but not
> every - and are al ready in use.) I've primarily been thinking of one of the
> following:
>
> Mod1+BackSpace
> Mod1+Escape
> Mod1+0
> F10
>
> Which of these would be the best, so that those who are mostly happy with
> the rest of the layout wouldn't have to go remapping it?
I use Mod1+Space personally. I would suggest that you stay away from
Escape and Backspace (backspace because ctrl-alt-backspace kills X) and
both of them because, in my experience, they aren't keys that most
people think of as respecting modifiers.
-Etan
