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Macbooks does not have PageUp/PageDown keys. Which makes programming on macbooks a very annoying proecss. Because = Fn+Up, which uses TWO hands, comparing to most non-mac laptops.

Why the f%ck is there turn on/off key here and so very long 2-keys spaced delete (backspace) key, but no really needed ones. Why is this called useful laptop?!

Labels: keyboard, macbook, shit

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Permanent link. Posted by Shamil Gumirov @ 2:58 PM 0 comments

How the hell are you all people using command line in macosx?!

By default midnight commander and some bash hot keys are not working out-of-box in terminal (both default and iTerm [the replacement of default shitty Terminal]:
- No Alt-Enter - filename insert, you need to untrivially change keycodes
- No Shift-F7 (find next)
- No left-right = pgup/pgdown
- No word left/right (which is alt-left/right in linux) - this is bash specific
Other inconveniences:
- No key repeat (yes, no physical laptop keyboard keys repeat at all! Long press is for additional symbols - as on ipad; you need to change kernel parameter for that!)
- No NTFS write support.

- No way to disable smooth scroll in default PReview, it's really BAD on this screen and it's SLOW (there IS bugreport for this, i checked; but no hope to be fixed - mom Apple knows better what you need).

PS Going to setup win7 in spare partition. Possibly will get rid of macos to use whole drive (128gb only) need xcode sdk! No NTFS -> so I couldn't share files between, and I won't ever use unjournaled and insecure FAT. Only paid options are for ntfs: both free projects are unsupported: NTFS-3G and FUSE. Paid are tuxera (25 EUR) and Paragon ($20). I in no way am going to pay for things are currently for sure available in opensource for linux! NO WAY!

Labels: inconveniences, keyboard, macos, ntfs, shit, usability

"Нормальная" русская раскладка под macosx называется "Russian-PC", а не просто "Russian", как вы могли неправильно подумать :) иначе допсимволы (% например) скорее всего не будут совпадать с нарисованными.

Labels: keyboard, layout, macos, russian

Please note that I've tested this XML patch only for russian hw keyboard.

FN-keys in cyanogen-mod are awful (especially on russian version kb) and no fix from xda-developers forum works!
So I've finished manually edited english layout file (FN-keyboard section) which you can download:
qwerty-en.xml
You should move it using root explorer to

/system/usr/keyboard-config/layouts/

then change owner to root (id=0) and group to root (id=0) and change permissions to RW-R--R-- and restart phone.

Don't forget to backup original file and, by the way! I'm not responsible for any side effect ;)

Labels: android, fix, keyboard, mini pro, sk17i, sony ericsson, xperia

How to make AltGr (right alt) key behave like normal Alt in Ubuntu/Gnome:
Keyboard > Layout tab > Options... > Key to choose 3rd level > remove tip from "Right Alt".

By the way, what [the hell] does mean "add the standard behavior to Menu key"? Ubuntu help says nothing (what else did you expect from opensource?), google search gives nothing helpful.

Labels: alt, altgr, gnome, keyboard, shit, ubuntu, usability

Часто после инсталляции солярки не работают такие человеческие клавиши, как HOME, END в командной строке bash. Вот как это лечится:
(взято с блога)
1) Open your bash global profile file:
# vi /etc/profile
2) Add following line to it:
export INPUTRC=/usr/local/etc/inputrc

3) Close and save the file

4) Open the file /usr/local/etc/inputrc and define / modify key binding:
# vi /usr/local/etc/inputrc

5) Append following config data:

set meta-flag on
set input-meta on
set convert-meta off
set output-meta on

"\e[1~": beginning-of-line
"\e[4~": end-of-line
"\e[5~": beginning-of-history
"\e[6~": end-of-history
"\e[3~": delete-char
"\e[2~": quoted-insert
"\e[5C": forward-word
"\e[5D": backward-word

Labels: end, home, howto, keyboard, linux, shell, solaris