Re: [ukelele-users] Steelseries 6GV2 on mac
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Sorin Paliga
Apr 30, 2013, 1:44:43 AM4/30/13
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UKELELE is targeted at Apple users and therefore at Apple physical keyboards. Other keyboards may be approximated according to their general behavior. My suggestion is to test how keys behave with a standard active keylayout, e.g. U.S. or French, and note the differences. I do not think UKELELE may remap all possible keys, including functions like sound, brightness etc, which are assigned to the system.
There are some pretty utilities for this purpose, e.g. KeyRemap4Macbook (see http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/25141/keyremap4macbook ) or DoubleCommand (see http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/12004/doublecommand)
I have been using the latter one with an older PowerBook.
Geke
Apr 30, 2013, 4:42:10 AM4/30/13
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Just to add to what Sorin wrote:
Whether the keyboard is ANSI or ISO is determined when you connect it
first, and Ukelele usually does show a configuration that is close to
the hardware. If it doesn't, you can try other settings via View/
Keyboard Type.
Note that this is under View, not under Keyboard or Edit: it doesn't
affect the internal structure of the keyboard layout file you create,
only how the keys are displayed in Ukelele. So if you can't get a
complete match, just find out which hardware key corresponds to which
key in the Ukelele window and you're all set.
For the above, I have assumed you are talking about the standard keys,
not about the "media keys" and other special ones that are present on
some keyboards. Apart from the standard keys (including ESC and
function keys) most keyboards made for PCs support only sound controls
and maybe brightness when connected to a Mac.
Special cases are the Windows key and the Alt key, which on the Mac
work as Command key and Option key respectively, meaning that those
keys' positions are swapped compared to Apple keyboards. This
assignment can be changed in the System Preferences, but for
everything beyond that you'll need software like Sorin has suggested.
By the way, the name of the program arose from UKLE or UKELE: Unicode
KEyboard Layout Editor--that's why it's Ukelele and not Ukulele :-)
Whether the keyboard is ANSI or ISO is determined when you connect it
first, and Ukelele usually does show a configuration that is close to
the hardware. If it doesn't, you can try other settings via View/
Keyboard Type.
Note that this is under View, not under Keyboard or Edit: it doesn't
affect the internal structure of the keyboard layout file you create,
only how the keys are displayed in Ukelele. So if you can't get a
complete match, just find out which hardware key corresponds to which
key in the Ukelele window and you're all set.
For the above, I have assumed you are talking about the standard keys,
not about the "media keys" and other special ones that are present on
some keyboards. Apart from the standard keys (including ESC and
function keys) most keyboards made for PCs support only sound controls
and maybe brightness when connected to a Mac.
Special cases are the Windows key and the Alt key, which on the Mac
work as Command key and Option key respectively, meaning that those
keys' positions are swapped compared to Apple keyboards. This
assignment can be changed in the System Preferences, but for
everything beyond that you'll need software like Sorin has suggested.
By the way, the name of the program arose from UKLE or UKELE: Unicode
KEyboard Layout Editor--that's why it's Ukelele and not Ukulele :-)
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