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How do I map the <compose> key to <esc> in vim?
I currently have my capslock key bound to [compose] using xmodmap. Compose is good when typing scientific stuff, as I can quickly write things like 275°K.
But it's not useful when programming. When I ...
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Desktop keyboard behaves as on a Notebook
On a Desktop PC running Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit), I have recently installed a Microsoft CIR receiver (designed for WinXP MCE). Whilst the receiver works as expected with both WMC remote and ...
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Force All Windows into one Keyboard Layout in a shared system?
Every time I change the kbd into non-standard version such as Colemak/Dvorak/etc, it changes all the time back. How can I force change kbd in Windows to some non-default? I feel this irritating ...
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Dead key sequence for quotes works oddly in Eclipse in MacOS X
I'm using an US-International Keyboard in MacOS.
The normal behavior for dead keys in every application is, for example, if I press the key sequence ', it understands that the comma doesn't carry ...
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How can I remap the Fn Key using AutoHotKey? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Remap FN to another key
I want to swap the Windows Key and the Fn Key on my keyboard using AutoHotKey. However, I don't know how to define the Fn key. For example, the ...
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How do I stop OS X from automatically inserting closing quotes?
I have recently inherited a MacBook Pro from a colleague who has left the company. One of the annoying features that they had set up is that in every window/application that I can type the system will ...
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Where are Space and BackSpace defined?
I would like to put the right-arrow key on Ctrl-Space and Ctrl-BackSpace to see if that is comfortable for keeping me on / close to home row when I'm not in VIM. Here is the top stanza of my ...
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Using Ctrl-Alt for AltGr
On Windows, Ctrl-Alt is mapped to AltGr, but not so on Linux..
Using AltGr for 3rd level keys is wrist-killer nr. 1! I'm unable to find a workaround that doesn't remove other functionality I use (the ...
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What is the “Super key” on a Windows laptop keyboard?
At the bottom of this page https://github.com/Paaskehare/pastebin-sublime-plugin it says
Select some text (or dont) and hit Super + M and afterwards Ctrl + V - and you're good to go!
What is the ...
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Windows swap keyboard mapping of @ (at) symbol and " (quote)
I've recently moved to France from the UK and have a UK QWERTY keyboard, but certain symbols have been swapped such as the at symbol and the double quote. I'm using Windows 7 French version, with the ...
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Why the keys on a standqrd keyboard are laid out asymmetrically? [closed]
When I place my fingers on a standard keyboard, while typing, the left hand fingers curve to the left and the right hand fingers also curve to the left. I mean, why is that? I.e. I have a very hard ...
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“Not switching” keyboard layout in Windows XP
I'm using three keyboard layouts under Windows XP: USA, Italian and Russian. The problem is simple - when I resize the taskbar, I'm unable to switch my layout with shortcut and clicking on it neither. ...
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Are there ASCII characters that have the same keyboard input for both PC and Mac?
I'm finding that using ASCII characters between windows and OSX is very cumbersome because it seems all the PC codes use the keypad, and the Mac doesn't.
Are there any characters, at all, that I can ...
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Keyboard layout configuration in MAC OSX is being very buggy
I'm using an apple keyboard (not sure which country it's supposed to be, but the `/~ key is next to the shift key). I'm experiencing a number of problems, which I think are related
Pressing the `/~ ...
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Is it possible to unmap option+<character> in the US keyboard layout for OS X?
The US keyboard layout in OS X has a mapping for every option+character. For example option+a is å, option+b is ∫. I never use these. Some applications would use them if they weren't already mapped ...
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Why is my keyboard mapping wrong with Xming, Lubuntu in VirtualBox and Putty?
I am running Lubuntu in a VirtualBox guest on a Windows 7 host.
I have started the X server XMing on the host.
I use Putty with X-forwarding to ssh into the guest and use it to start lxterminal.
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Mapping keys on Linux
I'd like to change layout (mapping) of Lenovo ThinkPad keyboard (which I hate)
to be like Acer TravelMate 8000 (which I love).
That mainly means:
Swap Fn and left Ctrl
Tab-left to act like PgUp
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Keyboard layout: US for numeric keypad, and SE for keyboard?
On win7.
The Swedish (SE) numeric keyboard layout has a "," instead of "." as numeric separator character.
I want the numeric keyboard to give me "." when I press the "," key.
And I want to keep the ...
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How can I change the keyboard layout in XP mode?
I'm running the Japanese windows XP mode in an English Windows 7, and because the Japanese XP Mode is interpreting my (US) keyboard's scancodes as a Japanese keyboard. How can I change the scancode ...
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Automatically change layout depending on keyboard being used [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Separate keyboard for shortcuts on linux (two keyboards,two layouts)
I have a laptop with a US layout and an external keyboard with a Spanish layout. Is it possible to ...
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Can each Firefox tab have its own keyboard layout / language?
In Internet Explorer, when I switch my keyboard language in a tab, it doesn't affect other tabs that are already open (i.e., they retain their original kbd languages). Can I achieve the same in ...
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Remap combining tilde to tilde (French keyboard on Mac Os X)
The issue is pretty simple. Tildes have two forms:
The combining tilde, which is a diacritic (ñ, ã).
The "single" tilde, ~, notably used as a replacement for $HOME.
The French MacBook Pro keyboard ...
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Home and end keys on USB keyboard recognized as left and right arrow in VirtualBox running Windows 7
I have got a Microsoft Comfort Curve 2000 USB keyboard connected to my MacBook Pro. The keyboard layout is standard 104 keys.
When I run Windows 7 in VirtualBox the keyboard gets recognized as ...
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Use Dvorak layout on Windows XP
I use computers where I don't have access to the control panel to add/change keyboard layouts, but would like to use the Dvorak layout on these computers.
Is there some software that will remap the ...
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Remote Desktop: want remote locale by default, not the local one
Not a duplicate of Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection - Keyboard Locale
Often I have to connect via remote desktop to my office PC. For various reasons, the default keyboard locale on my home ...
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How to type double acute characters using compose
I cannot find the compose key sequence for double acute vowels like ő, and I need them a lot when typing in Hungarian.
I don't want to switch to a Hungarian keyboard layout as I type in Dvorak and ...
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Can't add German as input language in Windows XP [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Can't change keyboard language layout?
I have a laptop that was brought to a computer shop for a hard disk problem. They replaced the disk and reinstalled windows ...
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Xmodmap: six characters to one key and two layouts?
I know how to have six symbols on one key thanks to this question: Xmodmap: Six characters to one key?
However, when I have two layouts and switch them, weird things happen.
I have the following ...
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What is the different between enter and return key in Mac 128K?
I saw the Mac 128K, and see that keyboard have return key and enter key. In the model mac only remain the return key. What is the different between these two keys in the old system? Thanks.
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How to select text in Pico when I don't have a carat character?
I am using Pico via Terminal/SSH on an iPad with a French bluetooth keyboard. There is no way to type the carat (^) key to select text (control-carat to start selection).
The carat on the keyboard is ...
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How do I create a customized keyboard layout for Windows?
On Linux you can create any layout you wish by editing the appropriate ASCII configuration files. On Windows the keyboard layout definitions are binary. Is there any tool that can create these binary ...
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How to map Right-Ctrl to Escape in LMDE?
Is it possible to map Right-Ctrl to Escape in Linux Mint Debian Edition?
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Why is is harder to type parentheses () than square brackets [] on a standard keyboard? [closed]
Is there a particular reason why you need to use the shift key to type a parenthesis - ( or ) - whereas you do not for a square bracket - [ or ], on a standard QWERTY keyboard? The parenthesis is a ...
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Changing the Keymap in Ubuntu
Is it possible, using Ubuntu Linux, to change the meanings of the keyboards keys? I needed the right shift key to act as the home key and the right ctrl key to act as the end key. How to do this ...
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Mint map number keys to higlight text
I have a standard PS2 keyboard hooked up to my Mint linux box. When I try shift + the arrow keys on the number pad, I just get the numbers typed in. However I want it to work the same as on my ...
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Separate keyboard for shortcuts on linux (two keyboards,two layouts)
I have two keyboards: an old ps/2 one and a usb one. I want the usb keyboard to have the us layout (or prefferably have the usb keyboard follow the layout chosen in gnome) and the ps/2 one to have a ...
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Switch keyboard layout with opt-shift on OS X
I got used to switch my keyboard layout with Alt+Shift in Windows. On Lion seems it is not possible to assign Opt+Shift for changing kbd layout. Is there any software which will allow me to switch kbd ...
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X keymap editor?
Does anyone know of a reasonably easy-to-use X keymap editor?
I have an exotic laptop with a non-standard keyboard (a Toshiba AC100, for what it's worth). I would like this to have a keymap that ...
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How can I use the German keyboard layout for 16 bit applications per default on Windows 7?
When I use a German Version of Windows XP and run a 16 bit application on it, the German keyboard layout is used per default.
But when I use a German Version of Windows 7 (32 Bit), the American ...
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How to install farsi language in gnome centos
I dont find Farsi or persian language in list of languages for add to keyboard layout.
How to add farsi or install it?
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How can I change the default keyboard layout in Ubuntu 10.10?
Ubuntu keeps detecting my keyboard layout as Romanian. It almost always does this on a reboot and some times on waking from sleep. Some times it just randomly changes back to Romanian while the ...
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Why can't my keyboard type symbols anymore when I enter MS Word?
When I'm using Notepad or simply just the Internet, my keyboard works fine. As soon as I open Microsoft Word, it changes. The symbols are no longer the same. When I go into the keyboard layout, there ...
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Unable to type brackets [] in a 16bit application running in Win7 with in Spanish keyboard
I need to run a 16bits application (rhide.exe) in Windows 7, with a Spanish keyboard, but the default keyboard is the English version.
I changed the “autoexec.nt” (kb16 sp ...) and “config.nt” ...
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How to define letter in custom layout (xkb)?
I'm using Arch Linux.
I'm trying to define, for example, letter 'a' with double grave in xkb custom layout.
It's easy to define, for example, 'a' with grave:
key <AC01> {[ a, A, agrave, ...
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Insert a character with multiple accents on an extended Mac keyboard layout
I can't seem to figure out how to apply both an Umlaut (¨) and the Grave (`) to the the letter 'u'. I'll type one, then the other, then the letter, but only the latter accent is applied, with the ...
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Wrong keyboard layout for login screen
On my Mac mini with Snow Leopard installed, I have a swiss german bluetooth keyboard. This works as expected. However on the login screen the keyboard layout seams to be switched to US.
The keyboard ...
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Mac does not remember Windows keyboard settings when reconnecting [closed]
I'm using a Mac (OS X) in clamshell mode with a Windows USB keyboard attached.
A known issue is that the alt and command keys are swapped on the Windows keyboard. Namely, by default, the Windows key ...
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Apple UK / British English keyboard key mapping
I've recently started using a Mac at work, and after having been used to PCs running Linux for many years, it's taken a while for me to resolve a few niggles. But there's still one that remains: I'm ...
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How can I type “ç” in Windows GTK apps?
I use an English (US) international keyboard layout, and every time I use the key ´ followed by c it yields the Portuguese and French character "ç" (cedilla), which is desirable. However in GTK apps ...
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How can I remap Capslock on Windows 7 without thirdparty software?
I just upgraded to Windows 7, and I'm trying to reconfigure everything to my liking. Under Windows XP, I had remapped the Capslock key to behave as a Control key (I spent a long time with Solaris ...
