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Key Reassignment on a MBP

post #1 of 7
7/22/07 at 1:48am
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I heard that you can potentially reassign any keys on a MBP to any other one, so I guess my current question is can that be done so that the Fn key and the Ctrl key are switched? This is just of particular importance for regular typing as I'm personally more accustomed to a traditional keyboard layout, but I do need to use a MB/MBP every so often. Thanks again for the help.
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post #2 of 7
7/22/07 at 1:53pm
What do you need ctrl for in OS X anyway? Just about everything that ctrl is used for under Windows, is handled by the Apple key on OS X. However, if you wanted to switch those, you can do it in System Preferences under the Keyboard and Mouse section.
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post #3 of 7
7/22/07 at 3:49pm
Um CTRL in OSX? Gets used for quite a variety of things, not to mention acting as the right mouse button or bringing up a file menu with the single button Apple still insists on using.

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post #4 of 7
7/22/07 at 3:55pm
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Yeah I really just need it because I'm so accustomed to using it on a pc, and considering I'm someone who switches around between the two, it'd just be a personal convenience more than anything else. I just wanted to know whether it's actually possible or if the Fn is somehow one of the few that is non-interchangeable since it is such a often used key in OSX.
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post #5 of 7
7/22/07 at 4:07pm
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Originally Posted by seablade View Post
Um CTRL in OSX? Gets used for quite a variety of things, not to mention acting as the right mouse button or bringing up a file menu with the single button Apple still insists on using.

He said he was on a MB or MBP, therefore 2 finger right-clicking, if not enabled already, can be enabled, so... that kind of eliminates that need for ctrl. I almost never have to use ctrl, unless I am in emacs, or some X11 apps.

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Originally Posted by Genryu View Post
Yeah I really just need it because I'm so accustomed to using it on a pc, and considering I'm someone who switches around between the two, it'd just be a personal convenience more than anything else. I just wanted to know whether it's actually possible or if the Fn is somehow one of the few that is non-interchangeable since it is such a often used key in OSX.

If you are wanting to use ctrl on the MB in OS X as one would use it in Windows, then you can re-map the Command key (apple) and the Ctrl key to switch functions. That way when you press ctrl+C, you are really pressing Apple+C like OS X requires, but you press the windows version.

As far as the fn key being used frequently in OS X... i almost never use it in OS X, except for when i want to use delete as a right delete instead of a left delete... other than that, never. I use it more in Windows because there i need it for right delete, and to adjust volumes, brightness, all that jazz.

As far as remapping just fn and ctrl... im not totally sure, that isnt supported under System Preferences (that i can find) so you may want to look up an OS X keymapper on google.
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post #6 of 7
7/22/07 at 6:31pm
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It's not so much that I'll need to use the ctrl key all that often in OSX more so than I would the times that I need to run parallels/bootcamp. So really the convenience is of having the fn be the ctrl key because that's where it's physically located on most mainstream pc keyboards. It's just to keep myself up to speed when I'm running apps that I frequently use ctrl with. I mean it's not that big of a deal to adjust to it eventually, just asking to see if the remapping is at all possible to do to begin with.

But it seems like from what you're telling me that might not actually be possible. I'll stop by and ask them at the apple store if they know anyway at all, or if I'll basically have to use it as is. Thanks for actually checking it out on your macbook though for me.
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post #7 of 7
7/22/07 at 6:44pm
Well, in Parallels the key bindings stay the same as they are in OS X, so you hit Apple+C to copy, instead of Ctrl+C. It allows for a more seamless joining of the two OSes, especially when you then run it in coherence mode.
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