I am looking for a QWERTY keyboard where the CAPS LOCK key can be made a CONTROL key "directly on the keyboard".
I will use it at work where I cannot remap keys on their keyboard because that would require Windows admin privileges which I don't have.
In other words, I cannot change the Windows 7 registry for a software remap of CAPS LOCK to CONTROL (= admin privileges)
So my CAPS LOCK needs to be a CONTROL key directly on the keyboard.
I am thinking of a normal QWERTY keyboard where at least the CAPS LOCK key is programmable to a CONTROL key.
All the keyboards I have googled have programmable function keys (gamers' keyboards...), but usual keys such as CAPS LOCK cannot be changed.
I checked the usual Emacs forums to no avail.
Does anyone know where I can buy a QWERTY keyboard where CAPS LOCK can be made a CONTROL key "directly on the keyboard"".
Thank you,
My configuration: work Laptop with Windows 7 no administration privileges (cannot change Windows Registry)
normal QWERTY laptop with annoying CAPS LOCK key instead of the useful CONTROL key
ians <iansink...@gmail.com> writes:
> I am looking for a QWERTY keyboard where the CAPS LOCK key can be made a CONTROL key "directly on the keyboard".
> I will use it at work where I cannot remap keys on their keyboard because that would require Windows admin privileges which I don't have.
> In other words, I cannot change the Windows 7 registry for a software remap of CAPS LOCK to CONTROL (= admin privileges)
> So my CAPS LOCK needs to be a CONTROL key directly on the keyboard.
> I am thinking of a normal QWERTY keyboard where at least the CAPS LOCK key is programmable to a CONTROL key.
> All the keyboards I have googled have programmable function keys (gamers' keyboards...), but usual keys such as CAPS LOCK cannot be changed.
> I checked the usual Emacs forums to no avail.
> Does anyone know where I can buy a QWERTY keyboard where CAPS LOCK can be made a CONTROL key "directly on the keyboard"".
> Thank you,
> My configuration: > work Laptop with Windows 7 > no administration privileges (cannot change Windows Registry)
> normal QWERTY laptop with annoying CAPS LOCK key instead of the useful CONTROL key
ians <iansink...@gmail.com> writes:
> I am looking for a QWERTY keyboard where the CAPS LOCK key can be made a CONTROL key "directly on the keyboard".
> I will use it at work where I cannot remap keys on their keyboard because that would require Windows admin privileges which I don't have.
> In other words, I cannot change the Windows 7 registry for a software remap of CAPS LOCK to CONTROL (= admin privileges)
> So my CAPS LOCK needs to be a CONTROL key directly on the keyboard.
> I am thinking of a normal QWERTY keyboard where at least the CAPS LOCK key is programmable to a CONTROL key.
> All the keyboards I have googled have programmable function keys (gamers' keyboards...), but usual keys such as CAPS LOCK cannot be changed.
> I checked the usual Emacs forums to no avail.
> Does anyone know where I can buy a QWERTY keyboard where CAPS LOCK can be made a CONTROL key "directly on the keyboard"".
> Thank you,
> My configuration: > work Laptop with Windows 7 > no administration privileges (cannot change Windows Registry)
> normal QWERTY laptop with annoying CAPS LOCK key instead of the useful CONTROL key
On Sunday, 11 March 2012 12:17:06 UTC-4, Dan Espen wrote:
> ians <iansink...@gmail.com> writes:
> > I am looking for a QWERTY keyboard where the CAPS LOCK key can be made a CONTROL key "directly on the keyboard".
> > I will use it at work where I cannot remap keys on their keyboard because that would require Windows admin privileges which I don't have.
> > In other words, I cannot change the Windows 7 registry for a software remap of CAPS LOCK to CONTROL (= admin privileges)
> > So my CAPS LOCK needs to be a CONTROL key directly on the keyboard.
> > I am thinking of a normal QWERTY keyboard where at least the CAPS LOCK key is programmable to a CONTROL key.
> > All the keyboards I have googled have programmable function keys (gamers' keyboards...), but usual keys such as CAPS LOCK cannot be changed.
> > I checked the usual Emacs forums to no avail.
> > Does anyone know where I can buy a QWERTY keyboard where CAPS LOCK can be made a CONTROL key "directly on the keyboard"".
> > Thank you,
> > My configuration: > > work Laptop with Windows 7 > > no administration privileges (cannot change Windows Registry)
> > normal QWERTY laptop with annoying CAPS LOCK key instead of the useful CONTROL key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER (HKCU) – settings for the current user; requires no special permissions to write to it, but on restricted accounts certain methods of writing to it will not work.
So, on locked down machines, this tip does not work and the dropline.net blog post you are referring to is wrong.
> > I am looking for a QWERTY keyboard where the CAPS LOCK key can be made a CONTROL key "directly on the keyboard".
> > I will use it at work where I cannot remap keys on their keyboard because that would require Windows admin privileges which I don't have.
> > In other words, I cannot change the Windows 7 registry for a software remap of CAPS LOCK to CONTROL (= admin privileges)
> > So my CAPS LOCK needs to be a CONTROL key directly on the keyboard.
> > I am thinking of a normal QWERTY keyboard where at least the CAPS LOCK key is programmable to a CONTROL key.
> > All the keyboards I have googled have programmable function keys (gamers' keyboards...), but usual keys such as CAPS LOCK cannot be changed.
> > I checked the usual Emacs forums to no avail.
> > Does anyone know where I can buy a QWERTY keyboard where CAPS LOCK can be made a CONTROL key "directly on the keyboard"".
> > Thank you,
> > My configuration: > > work Laptop with Windows 7 > > no administration privileges (cannot change Windows Registry)
> > normal QWERTY laptop with annoying CAPS LOCK key instead of the useful CONTROL key
ians <iansink...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sunday, 11 March 2012 12:50:31 UTC-4, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
>> ians <iansink...@gmail.com> writes:
>> > I am looking for a QWERTY keyboard where the CAPS LOCK key can be made a CONTROL key "directly on the keyboard".
>> > I will use it at work where I cannot remap keys on their keyboard because that would require Windows admin privileges which I don't have.
>> > In other words, I cannot change the Windows 7 registry for a software remap of CAPS LOCK to CONTROL (= admin privileges)
>> > So my CAPS LOCK needs to be a CONTROL key directly on the keyboard.
>> > I am thinking of a normal QWERTY keyboard where at least the CAPS LOCK key is programmable to a CONTROL key.
>> > All the keyboards I have googled have programmable function keys (gamers' keyboards...), but usual keys such as CAPS LOCK cannot be changed.
>> > I checked the usual Emacs forums to no avail.
>> > Does anyone know where I can buy a QWERTY keyboard where CAPS LOCK can be made a CONTROL key "directly on the keyboard"".
>> > Thank you,
>> > My configuration: >> > work Laptop with Windows 7 >> > no administration privileges (cannot change Windows Registry)
>> > normal QWERTY laptop with annoying CAPS LOCK key instead of the useful CONTROL key
>This seems to be the only solution that I have based on the replies I have received.
>Thank you for the suggestion.
>IS
For $50, buy a Sun keyboard from Oracle. Used to be that a "type 6" was good (just like
an ASR-33, at least as far as the location of control (just left of A) and caps-lock (bottom,
below shift).
Maybe it's type 7 now. It's confusing, because they sent me a type 7
I think it was, but it had the control-key down at the bottom.
