On Jun 18, 4:06 am, Dotan Cohen <dotanco...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 01:09, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote: > > thanks. didn't know about Ducky keyboard. Looks good. Also nice to > > hear your experience about Truly Ergonomic keyboard. > > I like it, see my first-hour review > here:http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:18154
very nice review! and on geekhack.org too — the hardcore keyboard mod site! I enjoyed reading it. > > no actually i don't know how to make normal letter keys as (ctrl, alt) > > modifiers. You'll need a usb hid remapper. (there's a couple for mac > > os x i linked on my site but i couldn't verify cuz am now on a 6 years > > old powerpc with outdated mac os x) For Windows, Microsoft made a > > layout maker. I haven't used it so i don't know if it allows mapping > > letter keys as modifier. Have you tried it? > > I use Kubuntu Linux. i only started to use linux this month, from 10 years hiatus. First thing to do there is remap keys to the way i like of course. But am not familiar on how-to there. Seems xmodmap is becoming obsolete and XKB is in place. There's a couple nice sites about XKB but havn't had a chance to study them yet. May i ask you a few questions down the road? (maybe we can add each other on google talk or some social network) (off to email) Xah -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
