I'm trying to use an MSI mechanical keyboard on my MacBook Pro, however, when using a keyboard tester the computer registers two inputs for one keyboard stroke (E.g. I press number 5 and the computer registers 5a). I've looked online but have not been able to find anyone else having a similar problem.
Just for completion, I ended asking the manufacturer (MSI) and this particular keyboard does not support macOS. So better check next time.
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If you have a keyboard with built in shortcut keys and you want to reprogram them, what do you do? I had a kinesis freestyle 2 keyboard (mac and PC versions) that had two rows of built in shortcut keys mapped to a mac, but I wanted to use it on a PC (no way to return for PC dedicated version and printed keys have different shortcuts).
If you go to kinesis' website - a bit user hostile customer service in my experience - they will tell you there is no way to remap the existing buttons... and then they'll happily link you to buying a new $200 keyboard, their "Pro" model, if you want remappable buttons.
Of course there is an easy fix. While there are multiple approaches, I turned to a kind soul with a free utility they've released to make the world a bit better. The utility for Windows is called "SharpKeys" by RandyRants.com and on a Mac, you have a system setting you can change. Here is a good write up on that by Matt Klein at "howtogeek"
After remapping the control and command keys and purposefully assigning the web back and forward buttons, I then had a useful keyboard... no thanks to Kinesis and their upsell tactic leaving their customers (who paid a premium for their ergonomic keyboard) in the dark with an easy solution in reach..
I have been using intellij on mac for the last 4 years, now using windows temporarily, and expect to return to mac soon.
I bought a magic keyboard for my windows machine so I wouldnt have to (re)learn 2 sets of keyboard shortcuts, and i switched intellij layout to mac default, but this does not work as I expected. The mac keyboard is pretending to be a windows keyboard rather than just being a mac keyboard.
Is there a simple way to tell the magic keyboard to just be a mac keyboard? I want all keyboard shortcuts to be exactly the same.
Ive googled this for a bit but found nothing helpful.
I looked into microsoft keyboard layout creator, but it appears the windows key will always be a windows key, and windows will never see a command or option key. This may be a viable solution, but looks like a time suck, and I'd like to know if anybody has suggestions before I go down this route any further.
Thanks for your help
Try making Windows key to act as Meta:
Press Help | Edit Custom Properties... (if a dialog appears, press "Create")
"idea.properties" file will open. Add keymap.windows.as.meta=true to a new line
Restart IDE
I have been trying to get windows 8.1 to force into a blue screen, but all of my attempts have failed. I don't really want to go into driver code or anything to do it, but just crash it using some sort of silly loop hole.
I tried creating the CrashOnCtrlScroll registry and it doesn't seem to work, even after restarting my computer. I also tried ending csrss, but microsoft has decided to let the user have no control and denies access at all costs (even after an informative prompt window).
I looked online for a while, but can't find anything on blue screening 8.1. It seems that everything out there is for 8 and below.
Notmyfault , a portable tool created by Microsoft's Mark Russinovich for the Windows Internals book will help you get a BSOD with more than a couple of ways (i.e High IRQ fault, hang IRP, stack trash, deadlock, etc)
Which registry key have you tried? There is different key location for PS2 and USB Keyboard.
USB Registry Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\kbdhid
Add DWORD32, name= CrashOnCtrlScroll, value =0x1
PS2 Registry Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\i8042prt
Add DWORD32, name= CrashOnCtrlScroll, value =0x1
Restart. Hold the RIGHT CTRL key and press SCROLL LOCK twice quicky.
Is there a way to reliably check programmatically if the keyboard attached to a computer is a Mac keyboard with Command (⌘) and option keys, or a PC keyboard with Windows, Alt, and Menu keys? For simplicity's sake assume that there is only one keyboard attached to the computer. An operating system independent solution would be best if there is one, but if you have to assume an OS, assume Windows 7.
Enumerate the attached USB devices and look for a keyboard. If you find one, and it's got a vendor id of 0x05AC (Apple Inc), then it's definitely an Apple keyboard. If the vendor is something else, or if you don't find any USB keyboards (e.g, the keyboard is probably hooked up via PS2), then it's probably not an Apple keyboard.
Synergy is a program that enables you to use the same mouse and keyboard in two computers. I have a PC and mac connected directly with an Ethernet cable therefore the connection is great and it seems as if there is only one computer.
I am developing an iPad application and the only software that I have found that supports iwebkit for CSS is Expresso. I use that to edit my CSS files in the mac and I use dream weaver on my PC to edit PHP, HTML and JavaScript files. The only problem is that I am constantly using both computers to develop the application and its very frustrating using different shortcut keys for each computer. It would be very nice if I could use the same hot-keys on both computers.
So far I have tried:
Changing the modifier keys in the keyboard section under system preferences in the mac. That works but just with the keyboard from the mac not with the keyboard that I am using with synergy that controls both computers.
Creating applescripts that what they do is to send a shortcut key then compiling them and saving them as an application. After they are saved as an application I go to system preferences and try to run them with a different shortcut key. when I create that shortcut key system preferences crashes and closes without saving the changes.
Creating shortcut keys in synergy which it works but only in one computer. Synergy will always send the same keystroke regardless on which computer you are using.
Lastly I have tried looking for "IronAHK" which in a lot of posts people say it modifies the mac hotkeys but I have not been able to find it for the mac.
Is there a way to have the same universal access keys across my machines?
THe following article was very helpful for me (working from a Mac, controlling a PC):
http://www.nextofwindows.com/how-to-properly-map-keyboard-between-mac-and-pc-when-share-mouses-with-synergy/
Step 1: Configure Server
Step 2: Double-click on the PC (or Mac if the Server is a PC)
Step 3: Toggle the key Ctrl and Super to mirror each other
When adding a new computer in synergy you can change command and control keys. Here is an example in windows. I was not able to find it because synergy place this in a location where I never thought I could find it.
Now I can use control + c to copy files both in the mac and in the pc and most of the command such as control + a to select everything etc. To fix the other issues so that I can use 'home' to go to the beginning of the line for example I use the program provided by Evan Moran which was the first answer in this post.
For the mac I use KeyRemap4MacBook. It is pretty good for being free.
That said, consider using different source editors so that you can code only on one system. This will make your life a ton easier. Dreamweaver is not necessarily the best. Visual Studio is pretty good on Javascript, CSS, and HTML, and their express versions are free.
If all you need is syntax highlighting EditPlus is great on the PC and will work on all languages you mentioned. If you need to stay on a mac then TextWrangler is great as a basic source editor. Both have free trials. Good luck!