[PD] left mouse click abuse

Amos Robinson amos.robinson at gmail.com
Mon Jan 5 16:08:32 CET 2009


On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org> wrote:
> Hallo,
> Andy Farnell hat gesagt: // Andy Farnell wrote:
>
>> Depends on how big your hands are. My span (Keyboard player)
>> makes up to CTRL+6 comfortable, but 7, 8, 9 and 0 are painful.
>
> One hint for Linux users: You can map the Capslock-key to be control
> easily with this in xorg.conf:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>  ...
>  Option          "XkbOptions"    "ctrl:nocaps"
>  ...
> EndSection
>
> This makes the Ctl-key-combinations in all apps much more comfortable -
> and who needs capslock anyway?
>
> It's possible on Windows with some registry magic as well, probably
> also on OS-X.

With Ubuntu and OS-X there are even easy-peasy GUI settings for it. :-)
Ubuntu it's System -> Preferences -> Keyboard -> Layouts -> "Other
Options" -> "Ctrl Key Position".
Can't remember exactly where it is in OS-X, but I remember it being
fairly easy to find.




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