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From: Arne Vajhøj on 1 May 2010 14:03 On 30-04-2010 13:54, Roedy Green wrote: > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:01:55 -0700 (PDT), Lew<lew(a)lewscanon.com> > wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >> Actually, it's a really, really terrible point since the numpad is >> very useful. > > What do you use it for? What symbols are on those keys? It seems as a good guess that he use the keys because he want those symbols. Arne
From: Lew on 1 May 2010 14:26 Lew wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >>> Actually, it's a really, really terrible point since the numpad is >>> very useful. Roedy Green wrote: >> What do you use it for? Arne Vajhøj wrote: > What symbols are on those keys? > > It seems as a good guess that he use the keys because he want > those symbols. Arne, you are a genius! You have unlocked the puzzle that has baffled the greatest minds in our field! That's exactly what I use it for! Amazing! -- Lew
From: Arne Vajhøj on 1 May 2010 14:41 On 30-04-2010 13:43, Roedy Green wrote: > On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:39:29 -0500, jebblue<n(a)n.nnn> wrote, quoted or > indirectly quoted someone who said : >> It only supports Windows and Mac, that makes it useless. > > Huh? I thought any Windows keyboard automatically worked on Linux. > Does it need a special driver? If it is a standard keyboard: yes. If it has special keys that are not just sending sequences of existing keys, then something is necessary to handle those keys. Arne
From: Andreas Leitgeb on 2 May 2010 09:37 Lew <noone(a)lewscanon.com> wrote: >>>> Actually, it's a really, really terrible point since the numpad is >>>> very useful. >>> What do you use it for? >> What symbols are on those keys? [...] > Arne, you are a genius! [...] That's exactly what I use it for! Amazing! There are of course also other uses than those: E.g. when I press Win+3/PgDn my windowmanager will slam the currently active window into the lower right corner. (and with Win+5 center it) These uses do not obviously follow from the *symbols* on the keys as much as from their position. I'm of course not disputing Arne's "likeliest guess" :-)
From: Andreas Leitgeb on 2 May 2010 09:53
Arne Vajhøj <arne(a)vajhoej.dk> wrote: > On 30-04-2010 13:43, Roedy Green wrote: >> On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:39:29 -0500, jebblue<n(a)n.nnn> wrote, quoted or >> indirectly quoted someone who said : >>> It only supports Windows and Mac, that makes it useless. >> Huh? I thought any Windows keyboard automatically worked on Linux. >> Does it need a special driver? > If it is a standard keyboard: yes. "yes", as in: if it is a standard keyboard, then it works with linux... > If it has special keys that are not just sending sequences of > existing keys, then something is necessary to handle those keys. Typical extra keys (open browser, open calc, forward/back, Home, Mail, Vol-Up/Down, Play,Pause,...) work with Linux. They're usually pre-assigned to reasonable application-launchers, and can be re-assigned to whatyouwant by means of some dialog). So, this "something" is already present in all the common linux-desktops. Those mega-configurable keyboards had better support some default- profile resembling a standard keyboard, or will give users a hard time during bios-setup. Beyond that, there may be extra features that may require (at least for the time until they're successfully reverse-engineered) some special windows-driver. |