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Wed, 09 Jul 2003

Got a new keyboard at work.

My old keyboard died when a bottle of soda exploded over top of it. My new keyboard is a Microsoft Natural Multimedia keyboard. I'm sure its nice if you are using a Microsoft OS, but for FreeBSD, its horrible. Took me a while just to get the F-Keys to work in X-Windows. They got rid of the scroll lock and insert keys! I guess that's because MS users don't have much use for them, but I sure do. I keep trying to do shift-insert to past my copy buffer, but it just doesn't work. There's a bunch of neat buttons at the top of the keyboard, but I think I'm going to have to wait until somebody comes up with an xkb mapping for them before I'll be able to use them for anything. Google found only one other person that was trying to do the same thing as me, but without luck. I guess I'm going to need to wait until more people start using these.


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