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Location: Oxford, UK
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OSX (Tiger) Keyboard Layout
I've finally bought a Mac Mini, which is lovely. However, like many I've brought over my old keyboard (very old - it doesn't even have a windows key!). It has " as shift-2 and @ as shift-'.
I downloaded a UK.keylayout file from the net and used Tiger's own settings to swap ctrl and cmd. It works great. Sometimes. When I open the "Input Menu" in international, it won't let me select just the UK keyboard. I always have to select eg British or US as well. If I just have eg "British" and "UK" selected, the tick on the "British" keyboard is greyed out so I can't deselect it. The real problem is that use of certain apps - eg Safari, iCal, Firefox - appear to automatically change the keyboard back to "British" (ie @ and " the original, wrong, way round) when their windows are selected. And clicks to select the UK keylayout are ignored. Other apps - eg Fire - will allow me to use the UK keylayout as planned. But using one of the 'bad' apps in the meantime sets me straight back to "British". Can anyone help?
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Psycho
Location: North America
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I wish I had an apple so I could tell you but I'm not very fond of apples mainly due to the software limitation (not much of software I really want to use is available on a mac and if it is it's not as current or updated at the PC version) but macs are pretty.
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Donor
Location: New England
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Hmmm, I thought I read about an extension the other day in MacAddict, it was designed so that you could move any key to any other key. I can't Google it right now, however. I'll try to remember to look it up tonight.
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keyboard, layout, osx, tiger |
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