Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (471 mails)

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 04 June 2009 19:11:42 Lew Wolfgang wrote:
> 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

Lew,

        Now that is something I definitely have to try... That is a hell of a 
lot 
easier to manage than stretching the pinky to the far bottom-left of the 
keyboard while trying to stretch the rest of the fingers to reach R, T, G & B. 
The overriding problem is that most devs don't think in terms of keyboard 
efficiency when implementing a key combination. It's usually just a look at 
what is already taken and then the epiphany of "hey they combo isn't taken..." 
and you end up with ctrl+F8 -F11 for commonly used combinations.

        What the hey, maybe the devs are just into distal phalange extremism..

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