Mac

[cellio]

My Mac Mini arrived Friday, faster than I expected. In an act of will I did not punt my congregation's Friday-evening services, attendance at which required starting Shabbat two hours early, to play with it (and go somewhere else later). I did verify that a VNC server is running on my PC and reachable from my laptop, so I can skip the dual-

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[laurabee]

Re: Apps

[cellio]

Thanks!

otherwise very difficult to google for

Yeah, I can see that. :-)

Any advice on getting Firefox to use the control key instead of the option key as a prefix? That placement really sucks and I'm so used to control-t from Windows that it's screwing me up. (Also control-c and control-v, so I suppose I should be asking this question more broadly -- but if any app can be customized in that way, it's got to be Firefox. :-) )

[laurabee]

Re: Apps

[cellio]

Wait, your thumb? On my keyboard I would have to fold my thumb under my palm about as far as it can go to reach that key, and it's really hard to do that while hitting some other keys like 'v'. What keyboard are you using? (My current keyboard isn't going to be the final one; I can already tell its ergonomics are sub-standard. But I don't think these keys move around that much, do they?)

[laurabee]

Re: Apps

[cellio]

I rest my left thumb below the center of the space bar, roughly between 'v' and 'b'. I suspect those typing lessons in fifth grade were my downfall -- who anticipated modern keyboards back then? :-)

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[merle_]

I use my thumb for it as well (M$ ergonomic keyboard), but I often do not keep my hands on the standard baseline. Trying it out it seems like I rotate my left hand clockwise a bit and drop it one row down and one column out towards the edge when doing lots of cut/paste operations.

I'll second the Synergy recommendation from above if you do want to use both computers at once easily, although a few people where I work prefer to run Xming on the Windows box and just use native XWindows to deal with the multiple monitors.

Re: Apps

[cellio]

Actually, I want Control on the caps-lock key (for emacs) and already remapped that. I don't think I can map both Control and Command to the same key, and that would probably confuse some apps anyway. (Do any Mac apps other than emacs, which isn't a native Mac app, use control?)

What I'd really like to do is to tell individual applications, or perhaps the OS if my suspicion about control is correct, that wherever they're expecting command, they should accept control. Otherwise it's going to take a long time and a lot of finger cramps to de-hard-wire cut and paste. :-(

Re: Apps

[cellio]

An interesting thought. Thanks; will investigate.