[Editor's note: My backtick/tilde is above the tab, but I have an Apple standard keyboard. The technote is very detailed and will be quite helpful if you're interested in setting up your own customized keyboard layout.]
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Apple's Developer Tech Note TN2056 explains how you can create your own keyboard layout. I've used it to remap the "plus minus/paragraph" key (the one above the Tab) so it creates a backtick and a tilde (when shifted), just like a PC keyboard.
[Editor's note: My backtick/tilde is above the tab, but I have an Apple standard keyboard. The technote is very detailed and will be quite helpful if you're interested in setting up your own customized keyboard layout.]
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Original G4 tiBook keyboard
Has anyone already used this tip to remap the original G4 tiBook to match that of the second generation tiBooks?
Original G4 tiBook keyboard
I only have an old-rev tiBook myself, and I've used the methods described in the technote to remap some keys.
Perhaps a hint: I've used the USExtended keyboard layout as a basis; you can find the file at:
I did some trickery to it to make it get recognised, for instance change the group to 0 (which makes it a Roman layout), but it seems to work perfectly. Anyone interested in the layout I made (which is kind of annotated, so you can see what I changed) can mail me, ofcourse :)
PC Keyboard?
I do Mac-only tech support for an organization that has 45+ Macs and 150+ PCs. They have a database on an AS/400 server that is accessed by everyone, Macs included. The Mac users complain about not having any function keys beyond F15, which are needed to access certain information.
PC Keyboard?
We use a couple of programs to communicate with our AS/400 machine and both of them use the shift key to add 12 to the Fkey that is pressed. For example, Shift-F12 sends F24. Have you tried this combination already?
Re-map volume keys?
Nice playing with keyboard layouts, but I am still searching for a means to map my function keys to volume up/down/mute.
Re-map volume keys?
Don't know if you re-mapped your volume keys yet (the post was from a while ago), but I just found an application to do the same thing...Keyboard Maestro (http://www.keyboardmaestro.com/).
I used it since I control both a PC and my PowerMac G4 through a KVM switch. The KVM switch doesn't recognize the volume keys on the Apple keyboard. So, I used Keyboard Maestro Lite (the free version) to send a "volume down" command when I hit Ctrl-F9. "Volume up" is Ctrl-F10, and so on. Effectively, Ctrl-F9 through Ctrl-F12 are now my Volume up/down/mute, plus the CD eject key. Works quite well. Then you just check the box that tells Keyboard Maestro to start as a daemon process when the system boots. Very easy solution. It's not a keyboard re-map in the classic sense. It's more like defining macro's. But it works quite well. Oh...the volume control functions in Keyboard Maestro are under "Perform System Action"...not under iTunes or anything like that. Hope this helps!
Italian layout: where's it?
Hi!
Try this site!
This site helps change your keyboard layout easily in 10.2!
XML-Based Key Layouts are a Lot of Fun
I'd like to stress how cool this new mechanism is. As a Dvorak user who also uses non-standard character sets like the International Phonetic Alphabet, I have since 1985 struggled with keyboard layouts on the Mac. For me, the major disappointment of OS X was that there was no way to create custom layouts, so the appearance of this wonderful new key layout facility was a great relief.
XML-Based Key Layouts are a Lot of Fun
Well, for me, I tried to create a whole keyboard using that method and it seems to work, but I still have two problems: the Home and End keys work only in applications like Word X, but not in TextEdit or Mail; and second, I can't put circumflex accent on letters... Have you got an idea?
Create custom keyboard layouts in 10.2
I've tried to build my own keyboard layout for ancient polyphonic greek, for a french keyboard. I've used the greek keyboard layout supplied with the system (10.2.6), renamed it, changed the id, and permuted some letters with textedit to fit with my french keyboard. I've placed the new file in the directory ~/Library/Keyboard\ Layout. The international panel found it, and I didn't find any log file, so I suppose there was not any problem with compiling. I checked the box to enable this keyboard, quit preferences. But this new keyboard is not awailable in the menu bar, but instead an arabic keyboard. The international panel enable it itself. Does someone have this problem? Is there a conflict somewhere? It seems so easy to build his own keyboard, perhaps I've missed something.
French Canadian keyboard
I'm so frustrated by the fact that OS X seems to have eliminated the French Canadian keyboard! They've switched it to something called the Canadian CSA keyboard, which has some French keys, but is otherwise counter-intuitive and difficult (not to mention the fact that switching keyboards is just simply intrinsically difficult!). And I have a book due to my publisher September 1st -- this is really giving me a big, big headache.
Create custom keyboard layouts in 10.2
For the people who are interested, check out this page. It contains a link to
the mappings file (which works in Panther for me), plus some install instructions.
Create custom keyboard layouts in 10.2
As I said before, I love the XML key layout mechanism. Today I heard from a friend who encountered three bugs in the XML key layout processor, and felt I should pass the information along:
Apparently these bugs will be fixed in a future release.
Extremely annoying that they aren't really XML files...
The thing that REALLY annoys me about this feature is that despite what they look like, the keyboard layout files that come with the system (with 10.3, anyway) aren't well-formed XML. They contain lots of characters that are not allowed in XML documents (e.g. ""), which means it's not possible (or at least unreasonably difficult) to read or write them with proper XML tools. You have to wonder what the people at Apple use to maintain them. |
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