Hi Gordon, I don't subscribe to your techno-chat list, but after going to that list and reading Colin's repost of Eric's old instructions for using KeyRemap4MacBook and the PCKeyboardHack, I'll just state that they were correct at the time they were written. Starting with the version 8 releases of both these applications on January 30, 2013, the information on the preferences panes were moved into the main application.
The end of that post included the lines: Below is the link to the new podcast. that walks through these steps. http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/new-updated-remapping-keys-your-macs-keyboard-enhance-voiceover-experience I'm not sure whether that link will wrap, so I'll provide another shortened version to this AppleVis page with the podcast: http://bit.ly/1kFbyDK Had you gone to that web page, you would have read follow-up comments that stated that as of version 8, the changes Eric requested no longer required a special download link, but were incorporated into the main version of the app, and that also the app had changed its organization so that the preference pane information was now incorporated into the applications. Finally, I'll just state that another reason for installing KeyRemap4MacBook, whether or not you also install the PCKeyboardHack, is that laptop and Apple Wireless Keyboard users can also then access the full range of NumPad Commander options, as well as having access to a full embedded keypad. For more information, including tips on more general configuration of KeyRemap4MacBook, see the archived post: • NumPad on laptop Macs and KeyRemap4Macbook https://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access%40mac-access.net/msg12382.html Note that the post was written when configuration was done in separate preference panes. Gordon, there were some additional configuration tips for using KeyRemap4MacBook under VMWare Fusion with JAWS written up at a blog site named Flint's Geekiness. I have the URL saved in an old post on another list, but I can't get to that web site now. It described further suggestions of disabling Mac Host Shortcuts en masse under the VMWare Fusion Preferences to avoid definition conflicts, and on a further post how to swap the Windows and Alt keys. I'm not a Windows user, so I didn't separately save the contents of these posts after reading them and noting the URLs. These were: •"Mac Virtualization: Making the Caps Lock key work as a JAWS key in VMWare Fusion!" http://www.themillionweb.net/blog/?p=9 •"VMWare Fusion -- More keyboard tips": http://www.themillionweb.net/blog/?p=17 •"Mac Virtualization: More on key remappings, and how to swap the Windows and Alt keys!": http://www.themillionweb.net/blog/?p=12 The first page describes what is covered by Eric's instructions, only with the corrections for the preference pane information moved into the KeyRemap4MacBook and PCKeyboardHack apps. The two later blog posts were additional tips for working in the Windows VM. The links were active July of last year. HTH. Cheers, Esther On May 26, 2014, at 3:41 AM, Geoff Stephens wrote: > Hmm. I did not see any steps for installation in Eric’s description. Maybe > I missed a message. > > On May 26, 2014, at 9:34 AM, Gordon Smith wrote: > > Hi all > I think I’ve found out what was wrong with the PCKeyboard Hack and > KeyboardRemap. They don’t live in system prefs, not here anyway. You have > to manually launch them either from your applications folder or from > Launchpad. Maybe once you do that, the icons go into system preferences. > But that seems to be thstep Eric missed in his description. > > Kindest regards > > <--- Gordon Smith ---> > <gor...@mac-access.net> > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> As the Mac Access Dot Net administrators, we do our very best to ensure that the Mac-Access E-Mal list remains malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free. However, this should in no way replace your own security strategy. We assume neither liability nor responsibility should something unpredictable happen. Please remember to update your membership preferences periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
