Thomas Aylott (subtleGradient) wrote:
On Apr 13, 2007, at 10:24 AM, Tony Crockford wrote:
learning the keyboard shortcuts using a IBM keyboard on OS X is a nightmare, trust me!
Swap your keys in the Keyboard prefpane. Then use parallels and set the preference to swap control and command keys.
Might take a bit to get used to, but at least it's more consistent.
I hope to one day but right now I'm using a Mac Mini (non-intel) four screens and Synergy2 [1] to flit between OSX, WinXP and Kubuntu on a single keyboard connected to the PC.
Whilst I can remap the keyboards on each OS, it's only the WinXP keys that work. (Synergy passes key code and mouse position references I think). hard to explain, but I got into a muddle when I tried to swap the winXP keymap and the OSX one with DoubleCommand - right now on OSX my command key is an option key and my option key is a command key so that the alt key on the keyboard is in the place where the command key would be on a Mac (and so when I KVM with a hardware switch the keys don't move...)
(Nightmare unresolved!)
I was waiting for Leopard before buying a Mac Pro to run everything on with parallels, and now that plan is up for review...
;)
[1] http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy