ucontrol does not work under Tiger, and I don't believe it supports this remapping even under older versions of the OS. I did just have another thought, though: I could give up my caps lock key and use that as command, leaving control and alt as control and option.
For a just-a-little-bit-of-fan system I would likely have gotten a Mini or a Shuttle Zen. I bought the Cube because I wanted to go all the way and have a no-fan system. (And as soon as the baby gives us a good night's rest and I have a little time to work on it, I intend to start running diskless, so it will really be a no-moving-parts system.)
CPU upgrades of that sort defeat the purpose because they require adding a fan. There are lots of ways to have a 1-fan machine, but I'm trying for a 0-fan one.
As far as I can figure, Tiger only lets you remap all the keys of a given type. I've got 4 modifier keys to play with but they are only 2 different types (2 control, 2 alt). Since you need 3 types of modifier keys to use OS X comfortably, Tiger's remapping doesn't help.
I'd like to make the left alt be command and the right alt be option, but I cannot find a way to do it. If you know how to make that happen, or some other way to work comfortably in OS X with a keyboard like mine, I would love to hear about it.
I recently bought a G4 Cube because I wanted a fanless machine for my desktop. It was cheaper than buying a Hush or the like, and simpler than figuring out what case + VIA combination which would make me happy.
I was unhappy to find, however, that a 500 MHz G4 isn't fast enough to play MPEG-4 video (specifically Xvid). I'm running Linux on the Cube anyway (largely because I can't find software which will let me remap my keybard to have control, command, and option keys) so I'd be interested in the Pentium-M replacment if it has no fan.
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I don't see how putting it to sleep relates to the discussion. I want my system to have no moving parts so that it doesn't make noise.
ucontrol does not work under Tiger, and I don't believe it supports this remapping even under older versions of the OS. I did just have another thought, though: I could give up my caps lock key and use that as command, leaving control and alt as control and option.
For a just-a-little-bit-of-fan system I would likely have gotten a Mini or a Shuttle Zen. I bought the Cube because I wanted to go all the way and have a no-fan system. (And as soon as the baby gives us a good night's rest and I have a little time to work on it, I intend to start running diskless, so it will really be a no-moving-parts system.)
CPU upgrades of that sort defeat the purpose because they require adding a fan. There are lots of ways to have a 1-fan machine, but I'm trying for a 0-fan one.
As far as I can figure, Tiger only lets you remap all the keys of a given type. I've got 4 modifier keys to play with but they are only 2 different types (2 control, 2 alt). Since you need 3 types of modifier keys to use OS X comfortably, Tiger's remapping doesn't help.
I'd like to make the left alt be command and the right alt be option, but I cannot find a way to do it. If you know how to make that happen, or some other way to work comfortably in OS X with a keyboard like mine, I would love to hear about it.
I recently bought a G4 Cube because I wanted a fanless machine for my desktop. It was cheaper than buying a Hush or the like, and simpler than figuring out what case + VIA combination which would make me happy.
I was unhappy to find, however, that a 500 MHz G4 isn't fast enough to play MPEG-4 video (specifically Xvid). I'm running Linux on the Cube anyway (largely because I can't find software which will let me remap my keybard to have control, command, and option keys) so I'd be interested in the Pentium-M replacment if it has no fan.