Thanks Raul. What I needed was to route the mouse however, and that involved adding the insert key.
This was my fault for not realizing when I was trying this that I was using the capslock remapping utility, which evidently isn't perfect. Chip ------------------------------ Chip Orange Database Administrator Florida Public Service Commission [email protected] (850) 413-6314 (Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service Commission.) > -----Original Message----- > From: Raul A. Gallegos [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 4:08 PM > To: GW Info Discussion List > Subject: Re: Net Book Keyboard Question > > It would also help if laptop manufacturers would use the correct > mappings for keyboards to begin with. The MSI Wind is very > bad for this > while the Aspire One is not. Turn on the key describer and > hold down the > fn key. Now press the regular slash, the regular semi colon, > the regular > p, and the regular zero all while fn-key is held down. One of > those is > bound to say that this key is used to route the cursor to the > mouse or > whatever. That key will be your plus key since by default > when using the > desktop layout, the numpad plus by itself is used for route > cursor to mouse. > > many thanks. > > Chip Orange wrote the following on 1/13/2009 4:03 PM: > > Thanks so much for your reply. > > > > I tried it again last night: I found that originally I was > trying it > > with a utility that remapped the capslock to function as > the insert key, > > but this wasn't working in conjunction with my fn key. > > > > So, I tried it without this utility, but I simply couldn't > manage the > > control plus the fn key plus some key for the numeric pad, plus the > > insert key in the upper right of the keyboard. > > > > It would help laptops emensely if GW would support > something other than > > insert as the command modifier; then, I think laptop owners > could just > > manage with the fn key and the desktop layout. > > > > Chip > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Chip Orange > > Database Administrator > > Florida Public Service Commission > > > > [email protected] > > (850) 413-6314 > > > > (Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not > > necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service Commission.) > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Darren Harris [mailto:[email protected]] > >> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 3:49 PM > >> To: Chip Orange; [email protected] > >> Subject: RE: Net Book Keyboard Question > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I think you can try fn shift and =. Try that and see if > that works. > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Chip Orange [mailto:[email protected]] > >> Sent: 08 January 2009 15:37 > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: RE: Net Book Keyboard Question > >> > >> > >> Raol, > >> > >> When I do this with my Dell Inspiron, I cannot find the > equivalent of > >> numeric pad plus, so I cannot move the mouse pointer to > the cursor or > >> the highlighted control. > >> > >> Do you know of any solutions, or what key I should be using? > >> > >> thanks. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------ > >> > >> Chip Orange > >> Database Administrator > >> Florida Public Service Commission > >> > >> [email protected] > >> (850) 413-6314 > >> > >> (Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not > >> necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service > Commission.) > >> > >> > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: Raul A. Gallegos [mailto:[email protected]] > >>> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 4:43 PM > >>> To: GW Info Discussion List > >>> Subject: Re: Net Book Keyboard Question > >>> > >>> Hi. I'd recommend using the desktop keyboard with this fine > >>> machine. You > >>> can then hold down the fn key, it's the second key from the > >>> left, just > >>> to the right of the control key. While held down, use 7 8 9 > >>> for numpad 7 > >>> 8 9, u i o for numpad 4 5 6, and j k l for numpad 1 2 3. So, > >>> to move the > >>> mouse to the top-left, hold down fn key and press the number > >>> 7. To read > >>> the current line under the mouse, holding fn key, press the > >> letter i. > >>> Hope this helps. > >>> > >>> Larry Naessens wrote the following on 12/26/2008 7:27 PM: > >>>> Hi there. We've purchased an Acer Netbook Aspire 1 and > >>> it's my first > >>>> time in using a laptop keyboard. 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