Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (471 mails)

[Lew Wolfgang <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David C. Rankin wrote:
>       Next, the ctrl+f1 -f4 shortcuts for desktop 1-4 are horribly 
> inefficient due 
> to the left ctrl being at the absolute bottom of the keyboard while the 
> F'keys 
> are at the absolute top. This eliminates the chance of an efficient switch 
> without having to reposition your hands on the keyboard and then reset after 
> the key combo is entered. Even using the right ctrl (which many laptops do 
> not 
> have) requires a stretch with the left hand to reach the F'keys. If the 
> CA+left and CA+right are defined for the 'previous' and 'next', that takes 
> care of the problem, but if anyone can suggest another scheme for desktops 
> 1-4, it would really help get rid of some keyboard inefficiency.

Hi David,

Har!  You hit on a very old gripe of mine!  God and UNIX demand that
the control key be located directly left of the "A" key.  I've been
cursing that knuckle-headed IBM engineer who redesigned the IBM-AT
keyboard for 25-years.

I've also been remapping my keyboard layouts, making the caps lock
key and extra control key.  It can be done with sax2 or by adding

  Option       "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps"

to the "InputDevice" section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf.

Regards,
Lew Wolfgang


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