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Re: Making use of the "windows"-keys
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B. T. Raven |
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Re: Making use of the "windows"-keys |
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Sun, 26 Feb 2006 22:33:07 GMT |
<fugundrecht@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi there
>
> due to ergonomic reasons I want to use the "windows"-keys for ctrl,
> they are so more conviently accesible with the thumbs.
> Unfortunately I have no programming skill whatsoever and would
> therefore appreciate any idea how to get this done.
>
> Greetings
> Norbert
>
I think this is an operating system question. For Linux, etc. see:
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO.html#ss5.1
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For win2000 or more, google on Registry and keyboard key swap, etc.
For win98 or less it's almost impossible without something that works like
this:
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Ctrl2Cap9x.html
To modify this for your purposes would require a lot of knowledge of msw
and assembly language.
I want to do something similar on win98: Swap the winapps key and the
right control key to make the dvorak keyboard symetrical. Any one know how
to do that?
As far as I know, Emacs capabilities for msw os's along these lines are
limited to these forms, which I find in my .emacs:
(setq w32-pass-lwindow-to-system nil
w32-pass-rwindow-to-system nil
w32-pass-apps-to-system nil
w32-lwindow-modifier 'super ;; Left Windows
w32-rwindow-modifier 'super ;; Right Windows
w32-apps-modifier 'hyper) ;; App-Menu (key to right of
Right Windows)
So it looks like you could at least (if you are using msw) substitute
'control where I have 'super. This would leave you with 2 left control
keys and 2 rights.
By the way, I can't get my thumbs closer to those keys unless I cross my
hands. Are you using a special keyboard?
Ed