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Offline konz

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HHKB Pro2: Menu key
« on: Mon, 22 February 2010, 04:56:41 »
The left and right OS (or Windows) keys on the HHKB Pro2 are left and right OS keys, not a left OS key and a Menu key.

This explains why the HHKB Pro2 has the option of mapping the left OS key to Fn thus avoiding "claw finger" combinations for arrow keys, etc. -- the amount of keyboards having left and right OS keys is minuscle (Fujitsu Siemens KBPC E is an example) and no software I am aware of depends on this.

However, it leaves us without a convenient Menu key.

Is there a better way of generating Menu key than emulating it using Shift-F10 (standard at least under Windows)?  Are programs known that support the Menu key, but not Shift-F10?
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Offline ch_123

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« Reply #1 on: Mon, 22 February 2010, 08:15:54 »
Some sort of software mapping... AHK or Linux's inbuilt tools.

I can't imagine why you'd need the Useless Key though...
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Offline test157

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« Reply #2 on: Mon, 22 February 2010, 08:30:48 »
yeah, and if really Shift F10 works almost everywhere in linux or in windows, in eclipse at least
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Offline bigpook

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« Reply #3 on: Mon, 22 February 2010, 09:43:52 »
shift + F10 seems to work for me in Ubuntu on a Dell laptop.
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Offline konz

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« Reply #4 on: Tue, 23 February 2010, 01:17:39 »
Quote from: ch_123;159946
I can't imagine why you'd need the Useless Key though...


I try not to use a mouse.  I don't like leaving the home row.

This brings up a second topic: anyone know how to generate keypad keys on a HHKB Pro2 so that Windows MouseKeys works?
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