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Windows flag button replacement?
Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 8:49 am
by ibmt40
Hi
Can you modify your keyboard anyway so that one specific button is used as a windows button? And how?
/Kim Schurmann
Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 10:30 am
by ibmt40
Arrh sorry, have found out, IBM Beyboard customizer for the win... or für der winnes
Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 11:12 am
by davidspalding
You can also use the UltraNav Wizard to make one of the TouchPad buttons jump to the Start button. Handy if you're not a big user of the WIN + E, WIN + L, WIN + R, et al, combos.
Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 4:31 am
by dr_st
davidspalding wrote:You can also use the UltraNav Wizard to make one of the TouchPad buttons jump to the Start button. Handy if you're not a big user of the WIN + E, WIN + L, WIN + R, et al, combos.
Ctrl+Esc brings the start menu too. Hardly worth configuring anything for it.
Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 9:14 am
by larrys
This is a nifty utility I use which remaps the caps-lock key into a Windows key, and has a graphical interface where you can move around the applications which you've assigned to different letters. The price is right too...freeware:
http://www.qliner.com/hotkeys/default.htm
Overview
Qliner hotkeys is a free and open source keyboard productivity environment. It is the first product of it's kind that is usable by computer geeks and non geeks alike.
Key features:
* Smart Application Launching
* Smart Application Instance Switching
* Drag and Drop Configuration using an Onscreen Keyboard
* Support for 100+ International Keyboards (making it a handy tool for international keyboard users).
* Support for Dvorak keyboards
* Volume Control Add-in
* Clock Add-in
* Optionally maps Caps Lock key to Window key (handy if your keyboard does not have a Windows key or if you just hate the default bahavior of Caps Lock)
Hotkeys builds on the concept of Windows shortcut keys but takes this concept to a whole new level. Do you think key combinations are hard to remember? Just hold the Windows key for three seconds and up pops a Onscreen Keyboard with icons on the keys that are configured. This you can you use , not only to remind you of hotkey combinations, but also for Drag and Drop Configuration.
Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 2:56 pm
by davidspalding
dr_st wrote:davidspalding wrote:You can also use the UltraNav Wizard to make one of the TouchPad buttons jump to the Start button. Handy if you're not a big user of the WIN + E, WIN + L, WIN + R, et al, combos.
Ctrl+Esc brings the start menu too. Hardly worth configuring anything for it.
Yeah, really, no kidding, imagine that.
But sometimes reaching for the thumb-and-middle-finger CTRL + ESC combo is an interruption, while the button is right there. And some users (women?) have smaller hands for which that combo requires both hands. This is why some peeps will use an extra mouse button for it.
YMMV and probably will.