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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: mr_a500 on Thu, 04 August 2011, 14:03:10

Title: Anybody use a Model F on a Mac? (Numlock/Arrow problem)
Post by: mr_a500 on Thu, 04 August 2011, 14:03:10

I finally got a Belkin PS/2 to USB adapter and I'm just trying it out now - with Model F on PowerMac G5. Typing works fine, but I noticed (with much disgust) that OSX ignores NumLock and I am unable to turn it off to use the arrows on the Numeric Keypad.

Is there a trick to this? (one that doesn't involve installing Intel-only software?)

Title: Anybody use a Model F on a Mac? (Numlock/Arrow problem)
Post by: oddsratio on Thu, 04 August 2011, 14:14:31

OSX doesn't recognize the arrow function on the tenkey by default (has this worked for you before on a different tenkey?). You can try KeyRemap4Macbook (not sure how it works on desktop models). It's a preference pane that has the option of using the tenkey this way.

Title: Anybody use a Model F on a Mac? (Numlock/Arrow problem)
Post by: mr_a500 on Thu, 04 August 2011, 14:56:43

Ah yes, KeyRemap4Macbook seems to work. I saw that earlier, but thought it was Intel-only. There's an older release that works with PPC.

I enabled "Keypad as Arrow" and that works nicely. [strike]I tried remapping left Command to "`", but that doesn't work at all.[/strike] I wish I could remap the power button to Sys Req, but I don't see that anywhere.

Edit: For Command remapping, you have to Remap backquote to Command... instead of the other way around.