On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:20:44 -0300 "Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Marco van de Voort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > All to exotic combo's might also unnecessarily confuse KVMs. Like > > the one attached to my Mini :_) > > What are KVMs? > > > Not on all Macs. > > For example the Mac book with american keyboard maps Cmd+F keys to > > F keys. Probably this can be turned off somehow. > > This is bad news. Do you have such a MacBook? Yes. > And are you sure about this? I just changed my keyboard layout and > using Command+F key did not change the brightness, etc. Yes, I'm sure. Any F combination without the fn modifier is eaten by OS X (except F5+F6). Pressing the fn key gives all F combinations to lazarus. > > I think the Apple scheme must not use F keys. > > Of couse I am only talking about the Mac OS X Lazarus scheme > > > The os-x-lazarus scheme could use them if we provide some hints how > > to configure keyboards to not eat all F key combos. > > You can tell it to give all F keys to user programs in the > Preferences. Then you use Fn+F key to access the special Apple > functions. But I don't like this solution, it's too intrusive. Yes, this preference switches the behavior. Now fn+F keys are eaten by OS X and F keys are given to lazarus. I could live with that. Mattias _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
