pc keyboards on the mac

[biped]

so i have my shiney new mac pro,

 

 

but i'm not down with the keyboard/mouse that comes with it, i can type faster than superman, part of the trick is to use slimline keyboards, that notebook action, you can blow on the keys to register a keystroke.

 

the stock apple keyboard feels like i'm drilling for oil or something...

 

 

so whats the deal though, i figured out how to swap around the control and alt keys, to make osx happy ( even though it screws up all my terminal sessions ) but i want to get them damn media keys to work, and maybe some of the shortcut buttons on my particular keyboard.

 

 

i found a piece of software call 'controllermate' and it registers every keystroke, but i can't seem to remap them for osx to be happy...

 

any tricks, any software ?

 

i hate to rag on osx, but in windows, i can remap my delete key to flush the neighbors toilet if i want.

 

so what gives ?

[Suzuka]

So you want the keys to be more like windows?

 

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...the_COMMAND_key

[biped]

So you want the keys to be more like windows?

 

http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.ph...the_COMMAND_key

 

 

i already figured that part out. but thanks.

 

 

let me be more straightfoward.

 

this keyboard ( like a lot of pc keyboards ) has media keys, to use to control something like itunes/winamp/your fav music player. ( play / pause / stop / next track / prev track ) etc...

 

now while the volume up / down / mute buttons do their thing, the other keys don't.

 

 

also we in pc land might have buttons to open up things like browsers / email clients / etc.. i would also like to map these buttons to open up programs like 'calculator' etc..

 

its really quite a trivial concept.. so why is the solution so elusive. ( no you can't do it from the keyboard/mouse preferences pane )

[ergosteur]

i already figured that part out. but thanks.

let me be more straightfoward.

 

this keyboard ( like a lot of pc keyboards ) has media keys, to use to control something like itunes/winamp/your fav music player. ( play / pause / stop / next track / prev track ) etc...

 

now while the volume up / down / mute buttons do their thing, the other keys don't.

also we in pc land might have buttons to open up things like browsers / email clients / etc.. i would also like to map these buttons to open up programs like 'calculator' etc..

 

its really quite a trivial concept.. so why is the solution so elusive. ( no you can't do it from the keyboard/mouse preferences pane )

have you got this working yet? have a hackintosh (acer) laptop with media/internet keys, i'd really like them to work with iTunes/Safari.

[PLmatt91]

Just use the Apple keyboard and use a PC mouse. That's what I've been doing in school for my art classes. I brought in my own mouse cause single click is hella annoying. But the Mac keyboard is fine for me.

[fokker]

I prefer a slow and painly death to using those keyboards, sure there are people that feels ok using it but many of us don't, it's a keyboard that forces you to press the keys the way it wants to and not the natural way.

 

As a solution to Biped, you can buy a keyboard that's actually compatible with MacOS, logitech, microsoft or any other brand. I use a MS natural comfort that works great in osx.

 

Just use the Apple keyboard and use a PC mouse. That's what I've been doing in school for my art classes. I brought in my own mouse cause single click is hella annoying. But the Mac keyboard is fine for me.