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Lol. Even when that dialog worked as intended, it was total crap! It mostly worked for certain menu items only. Fun game: try to remap Ctrl+a to select all, Ct
by gcb0 7y ago
Lol. Even when that dialog worked as intended, it was total crap! It mostly worked for certain menu items only.
Fun game: try to remap Ctrl+a to select all, Ctrl+c to copy etc to mimic unix/windows. (or god forbid, to make your limited mobility device that cost thousands of dollars several years ago to work on your work provided macbook pro)
Every single app will behave differently and you will see how broken usability/accessibility is on OSX. Some examples for Ctrl+c:
on Firefox, Ctrl+c will move the cursor to the end of the text area while cmd+c will still work as copy, despite the menu hint showing Ctrl+c next to edit>copy.
On Notes.app it will work fine and cmd+c stops working (correctly).
On safari, calendar and most apple office stuff ctrl+c just do absolutely nothing. In some apps it shows ctrl+c next to edit>copy though, because why not
- simongr3dal 7y agoI'm not saying it is easy or logical, but it is possible. System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard > Modifier Keys... In this dialogue you can remap what the modifier keys means, so you can make the ctrl-button act as cmd and make the cmd-button act as ctrl. Personally i use it to make the caps-lock key act as escape.
- ggg2 7y agonow you have the problem of making your crap accessibility hardware closed source firmware to send the caps lock key code instead of ctrl. Good luck with that.
- fnky 7y agoYou can change modifiers for different inputs. If you have another keyboard attached, it will give you the option to choose between that, and other keyboards, such as the built-in. They can have different modifier overrides.