Re: How to switch between virtual terminals on PowerBook?
On 20 Mar, this message from Chris Tillman echoed through cyberspace:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 12:49:18AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 15:51:16 -0500, Brian Victor wrote:
>> > I'm kind of surprised no one has mentioned this before, but have you
>> > tried the aforementioned keystrokes with [left] option instead of the
>> > apple key? For my pismo, the apple key seems worthless, and I have to
>> > use the option key for meta.
>>
>> Perhaps this worked in the past. But to emulate the 2nd and 3rd mouse
>> buttons, I had to use the two keys at the right of the space bar. The
>> problem is that one of these two keys (the right option key) generates
>> the same code as the left option key (is there a way to fix that?).
>
> I think it's hard-wired to be the same.
That depends on the particular Apple keyboard. There are some (ADB) that
were reprogrammable via ADB handler ID to give different keycodes for
left and right keys.
But it seems most (all?) recent keyboards give the same keycode for left
and right. There still is code in the ADB driver to switch the keyboard
to that 'distinctive' mode, but eg. on my TiBook it has no effect.
Cheers
Michel
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