pizzaluvah Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 I have a Silicon Graphics PS/2 keyboard. It is probably about 10 years old but I love it because it weighs a ton and has very firm keys.. However, this keyboard has no Windows key, thus I have no command/apple key. This mean's I can't do a keyboard shortcut for copying, pasting, etc. Is there any way to remap that key to something new? I've looked all over with no success. Thanks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1038-remapping-the-command-key/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
enb14 Posted August 24, 2005 Share Posted August 24, 2005 Go to keyboard options and then remap keys you can put your Alt Control or Option in any configuration that you whish Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1038-remapping-the-command-key/#findComment-6657 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pizzaluvah Posted August 25, 2005 Author Share Posted August 25, 2005 Go to keyboard options and then remap keys you can put your Alt Control or Option in any configuration that you whish <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Wow. I totally didn't see that little button down there. Thank you for your help! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1038-remapping-the-command-key/#findComment-6779 Share on other sites More sharing options...
enb14 Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 You are welcome Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1038-remapping-the-command-key/#findComment-6855 Share on other sites More sharing options...
joelogic Posted August 26, 2005 Share Posted August 26, 2005 You are welcome <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Also, another quick tip. I have use for BOTH the command and control keys, but switching back and forth is {censored}. You know what key I never use? Caps Lock. Map your "Control" key to caps lock, and just use shift for uppercase letters. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1038-remapping-the-command-key/#findComment-7653 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabron Posted August 26, 2005 Share Posted August 26, 2005 Hey nice tip thanks i will do it too Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1038-remapping-the-command-key/#findComment-7670 Share on other sites More sharing options...
joelogic Posted August 27, 2005 Share Posted August 27, 2005 Hey nice tipthanks i will do it too <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Get this sh*t, I just stumbled on something pretty neat. I'm not sure if this is the standard across all the keyboards, but OSX automatically treats the "alt" key as the "command" key. try copy and pasting with alt like you would command, crazy. For further proof, try remapping a keyboard shortcut to "alt" with something (for example, i remapped my screenshot to file command to "alt 3") OSX wrote the shortcut as the command symbol and 3. No need to remap those keys!! :UPDATE: Further more, to take it a step further, using the key modifier, if you change the "command" key to something else (control for example), the alt key will take that value. So, for whatever reason, it seems OSX is interpreting the alt key as the command key. They must have the same hex value. Very cool. I wonder if a windows keyboard on a regular PPC mac would do the same thing. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1038-remapping-the-command-key/#findComment-8151 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xSuRgEx Posted September 10, 2005 Share Posted September 10, 2005 (edited) wasnt there a little application for the macmini iirc it had an onscreen keyboard so you could assign the mac keys to your standard keyboard's keys ok i found the app. it installs fine with osx86 (edit again) the app fails to load with osx86 prehaps some one can modify so it does work. and here is the download link. its GPL so no worries about warez http://doublecommand.sourceforge.net/install.html Edited September 10, 2005 by xSuRgEx Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1038-remapping-the-command-key/#findComment-15045 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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