[orca-list] Fwd: Apple Keyboard with Linux

[Justin Harford <blindstein gmail com>]

Justin Harford 

"A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become."

Fawn M. Brodie

Begin forwarded message:

From: Rich Burridge <Rich Burridge Sun COM>

Date: May 22, 2007 1:48:48 PM PDT

To: Justin Harford <blindstein gmail com>

Subject: Re: Apple Keyboard with Linux

Justin Harford wrote:

I tried xmodmap and it didn't do anything.  I typed it in the app run diolog that appears when you press alt f2.  

I wonder if it is possible that the fact that I am running this as a virtual computer embeted in tiger is messing things up.  Is there a way to make caps lock not turn on when you press it the first time? 

Sorry, I don't know. Perhaps a question to ask back on the Orca mailing list.

Or what other key should I use?  How about command, one left of the space.  I think it is the windows key. 

That seems reasonable. Again, you're going where I've never been before.
Maybe a question for the Ubuntu Accessibility List. See:

https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility

for more details.

On May 22, 2007, at 1:21 PM, Rich Burridge wrote:

Hi Justin,

I just tried it and it didn't do anything but turn caps lock on and write a q in the spread sheet that I had opened.

Interesting. Then that suggests that the Mac keyboard is somehow
different then the way this works on other laptops. Then probably the
best thing to do is remap another key to be the Insert key.

I believe xmodmap is the application that does this.
Perhaps try "man xmodmap" for more details on this.

"A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become."

Fawn M. Brodie

On May 22, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Rich Burridge wrote:

Hi Justin,

So, I have tried the alt/option key and it works pretty much like i'd expect it to.  Is there some sort of command that I could try with the caps lock key because I noticed that it is using capslock because I selected the laptop layout, but it didn't seem like it was reacting to it.  When I pressed caps lock, it just lit up as though caps lock were going on. 

What do you get when you try the Caps Lock key with one
of the other characters that make up a command?

Like:

Caps_Lock+Space  to bring up the Orca Preferences dialog
Caps_Lock+q      to bring up the Orca quit dialog

On May 22, 2007, at 6:55 AM, Rich Burridge wrote:

Hi Justin,

My apple keyboard does not have an insert or alt key.

My powerbook keyboard has the Alt key, two to the left

of the space bar. It's also marked "option". For laptops,

you can adjust the keyboard layout from "desktop" to

"laptop". See the first option on the General pane in the

Orca Preferences dialog. This then uses the Caps Lock

key instead of the Insert key for chorded commands. In

other words, Insert+Enter becomes Caps_Lock+Enter.

There is also a keyboard mapping pane in the Preferences

dialog. From there you can adjust any key bindings you

want to.