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You say swapped, I say its the correct placement. I use control much more frequently than fn, and its easier to reach it with my pinky on the thinkpad keyboard.
by abtinf 11y ago
You say swapped, I say its the correct placement. I use control much more frequently than fn, and its easier to reach it with my pinky on the thinkpad keyboard.
- windsurfer 11y agoI agree with you that it's easier to reach, but it's harder to find the ctrl key by feel. That being said, I haven't swapped the keys in my bios, and I've gotten used to this layout...
- ams6110 11y agoMe too, that's why I have Control and Caps-Lock swapped.
- StavrosK 11y agoCaps lock master race, reporting in. It's amazing how well-suited Caps lock is to act as the Ctrl key. Go through the pain of remapping for a day, feel great using your new, anatomic Ctrl for the rest of your life. Seriously, do it now. In two days, you'll thank me.
- bsimpson 11y agoInspired by the Search key in ChromeOS, I've been mapping Caps-A to "Quick Open File…" and Caps-S to "Command Palette…" in Sublime for years. It's wickedly convenient.
- RevRal 11y agoA variation: Caps-Lock swapped with Backspace. This has worked well for me.
- xamuel 11y agoMy favorite: map caps-lock to left mouse click.
- technomancy 11y agoIt's a start, but I'm much happier having moved it to under my thumb.
- krylon 11y agoAs a heavy emacs user, this was one of the best things I ever did. I used to think the term "emacs pinky" was a joke, but it is really not. And anyway, I cannot remember needing CapsLock even a single time, but I do remember hitting it by accident many times, so I do not really miss it.
- bryanlarsen 11y agoDon't use your pinky, use the meat of your hand to press the control key.
- 1ris 11y agoThat way I also press Shift, Fn and the Windows key, while holing my hand in a very unergonomic position.
- yincrash 11y agoThis is how I also use the control key, using the bone in my hand right where the pinky attaches to the hand. When ctrl is in the very corner, it's easy to press. When it's to the right of the fn (like on the apple keyboard I am currently using), it is significantly harder.
- platz 11y agoswap ALT and CTRL, then map CAPS to ALT. Then you can hit "CTRL" with your left thumb.
- theGimp 11y agoI tried pressing Alt with my left thumb, and it felt like playing Twister using my hand. Hats off to your dutiful fingers.
- tjoff 11y agoHow is that physically possible? I had a temporary job transcribing videotaped meetings to text and I used ctrl a lot for controlling the video. That fn placement almost killed my left hand, would have been perfectly fine if they were switched but that alone greatly limited my freedom of movement as I really wanted to borrow a sane keyboard wherever I went. edit: I guess it must depend on the size of the keyboard. On the x-series it was unforgivable.