On 9/18/07, Jacob Rus jacobolus@gmail.com wrote:
I'm planning to someday turn my right ⌘ key into an ⎋ key. I've been too lazy so far to figure out how though.
Check Ukelele[1], it probably does that without too much hassle...
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Has anyone managed to make this swap with Ukelele? An obstruction I found is that left ⌘ and right ⌘ are linked together.
Jenny
On 19/09/2007, Jenny Harrison harrison@math.berkeley.edu wrote:
Has anyone managed to make this swap with Ukelele? An obstruction I found is that left ⌘ and right ⌘ are linked together.
I'm pretty sure you can't. If there's something to do with keybindings that Jacob hasn't figured out, it's safe to assume there isn't an easy way to do it . :-)
Robin
Jenny Harrison wrote:
On 9/18/07, Jacob Rus wrote:
I'm planning to someday turn my right ⌘ key into an ⎋ key. I've been too lazy so far to figure out how though.
Has anyone managed to make this swap with Ukelele? An obstruction I found is that left ⌘ and right ⌘ are linked together.
Well no, Ukelele can't handle modifier keys. So there are 2 other possible ways, but either is tricky.
Desp [figured out][1] that you could remap any of the modifiers to any other. So the first possibility is to map one of the ⌘ keys to something like "help", and then either a) make help do the thing you want, or b) figure a way to get the "help" key to trigger another key event. This has the downside of clobbering whatever the help key was otherwise going to do, but I think it's worth it.
So I may at some point just change all the completion commands, etc. to use the help key, and then devote my right ⌘ key to that.
[1]: http://desp.night.pl/keys.html
The [other way][2] is to muck with plist files in the keyboard driver itself. I haven't tried this, it looks a bit daunting, and I'd imagine it's a good way to panic your computer or make your keyboard stop working altogether if you screw something up too much, but it might work out. :)
[2]: http://www.snark.de/index.cgi/0007
-Jacob
On 20/09/2007, Jacob Rus jacobolus@gmail.com wrote:
The [other way][2] is to muck with plist files in the keyboard driver itself. […]
I don't think this second way will work. That page even says, "… there is no way to deal differently with left or right modifier keys (ie. remap just the right command key instead) in this setup because both features are handled deep within the keyboard controller."
I'm surprised you didn't mention the third option of hacking the IOHIDFamily code. :-)
Robin
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