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Offline Voixdelion

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Switching the Alt and Ctrl keys on Model F?
« on: Wed, 18 August 2010, 05:20:15 »
Is it possible to swap the position (function essentially, don't really care about the key itself) of the Ctrl and Alt keys on a Model F AT?

I could get used to the lack of arrows and the backspace mod is definitely in order, but I don't know if I can break the motor habit of the ctrl-v-x-c since I do a LOT of cutting and pasting via the keyboard shortcut.
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Offline Jack

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Switching the Alt and Ctrl keys on Model F?
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 18 August 2010, 05:43:46 »
It's probably easiest to do at the OS. If in Windows you can just use Sharpkeys as it has a feature that will identify the keycode entry when you press the key, makes it easy to remap.
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Offline Voixdelion

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« Reply #2 on: Wed, 18 August 2010, 06:00:23 »
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It's probably easiest to do at the OS. If in Windows you can just use Sharpkeys as it has a feature that will identify the keycode entry when you press the key, makes it easy to remap.


What is "Sharpkeys''?  In windows or 3rd party software?
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« Reply #3 on: Wed, 18 August 2010, 06:18:21 »
AutoHotKey seems to be the key remapping utility favored by 9 out of 10 GeekHackers who chew PC's.
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Offline Jack

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« Reply #4 on: Wed, 18 August 2010, 07:00:37 »
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What is "Sharpkeys''?  In windows or 3rd party software?


Third-party freeware. Basically just a GUI for remapping keys via the registry. AHK is nice but for something so low-level like swapping ctrl and alt I would just use Sharpkeys.
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Offline British

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« Reply #5 on: Wed, 18 August 2010, 08:47:42 »
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AHK is nice but for something so low-level like swapping ctrl and alt I would just use Sharpkeys.

Care to elaborate on that ?
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Offline Jack

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« Reply #6 on: Wed, 18 August 2010, 12:29:06 »
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Care to elaborate on that ?


AHK is an application that sits in the systray capturing keystrokes in realtime and converting them or executing scripts as instructed. Sharpkeys is simply a tool for doing key remaps in the registry that you could do manually if you really wanted to, and when this is done you don't leave any application running; Windows just does a certain keystroke for a certain scan code input as instructed and there's not really any overhead like you would have with using AHK. To put it simply AHK isn't worth using for something so simple, only if you were actually going to script macros with it.
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Offline Voixdelion

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« Reply #7 on: Wed, 18 August 2010, 15:31:06 »
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AHK is an application that sits in the systray capturing keystrokes in realtime and converting them or executing scripts as instructed. Sharpkeys is simply a tool for doing key remaps in the registry that you could do manually if you really wanted to, and when this is done you don't leave any application running; Windows just does a certain keystroke for a certain scan code input as instructed and there's not really any overhead like you would have with using AHK. To put it simply AHK isn't worth using for something so simple, only if you were actually going to script macros with it.

It can be done manually via registry also?
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