[vox-tech] Help with sun keyboard

Matthew Lange matthewlange at hotmail.com
Tue Jun 27 13:45:46 PDT 2006


I move between platforms a lot...sometimes its easier to just nimble-up my
mind, rather than reengineer.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: vox-tech-bounces at lists.lugod.org [mailto:vox-tech-
> bounces at lists.lugod.org] On Behalf Of Ken Bloom
> Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 5:16 AM
> To: vox-tech at lists.lugod.org
> Subject: [vox-tech] Help with sun keyboard
> 
> I'm using a lab full of Sun workstations for the next two weeks, and
> I'm finding the keyboards weird. As someone helpfully pointed out, the
> problem isn't the Sun keyboard, but the keyboards I was trained on.
> 
> Ctrl and Caps Lock are swapped, so every time I reach for Ctrl, I hit
> Caps Lock instead. Additionally, Alt is where the windows key "should
> be", and Meta is where the Alt key should be. I'm also having trouble
> with the locations of the ~/` key and the backspace key, so when I
> reach for the backspace key, I end up hitting `.
> 
> Does anyone have a keybinding set to map the keys so they're more
> normal? (Either a layout you can send me, or a command that loads a
> layout that's already installed on the system.) The machines are
> running Solaris 9.
> 
> --Ken
> 
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