Hi Sharron, Karabater is useful in certain situations. For example, Suppose you have reduced sensitivity and so you want to use an old windows keyboard because it has very high key definition. Unfortunately, it has only one windows key and one applications key. Thus, the windows key is recognized by your mac as a left option key, but the applications key is not recognized. Karabater will let you set that applications key to become a right option key.
Or, suppose that you want to use voiceovers numpad commander to reduce your reliance on 3 and 4 key combinations, but your laptop/bluetooth keyboard doesn't have the number pat. Karabater restores the numpad feature of portable keyboards that was removed by apple in 2010. So, using the fn key as a modifier, the following keys are added: m = numpad 0, j, k and l = numpad 1, 2 and 3, u, i and o = numpad 4, 5 and 6, 7, 8 and 9 = numpad 7, 8 and 9. And other keys in that vicinity take care of numpad functions such as point, star, slash, plus and minus. Voiceover is pretty numpad independent unless you choose to set it up to use a numpad, and quite honestly, a bluetooth numpad or joystick has a bit more appeal. Windows screen readers though, are extremely dependent on the numpad and being without one in your mac based windows instalation is very debilitating. So Karabater's numpad is really handy. Karabater also lets you do nifty things to your caps lock key that apple didn't really intend for you to be able to do. Thanks to that, you can give your windows screen reader use of the caps lock key and add a level of convenience. In short, Apple gives you a huge number of features, but doesn't give you the keyboard keys to run them all, much less keyboard shortcuts for all of them. Karabater not only gives you a huge amount of extra flexibility in terms of what features you assign to what keys, but also helps OS and windows play nicely together and share the keyboard. Hope this helps, Erik Burggraaf > On Jan 9, 2016, at 10:11 PM, Sharon Hooley <[email protected]> wrote: > > So, do you mean that you want your Mac to use the same keystrokes as Windows > to be less of a hassle learning to get around? > > Sharon H. > >> On Jan 9, 2016, at 8:05 PM, E.T. <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Karabiner is a key remapper for OS X. I am running Windows under VMware so >> need to remap some keys. Cannot review it yet. (smiles) >> >> From E.T.'s Keyboard... >> [email protected] >> Many believe that we have been visited >> in the past. What if it were true? >> >>> On 1/9/2016 6:56 PM, Sharon Hooley wrote: >>> What exactly is a Karabiner, and Sharp Keys? >>> >>> Curious Sharon wants "to know. Thanks, >>> >>> >>> Sharon H. >>> >>>> On Jan 9, 2016, at 5:09 PM, Scott Granados <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Not sure about that one but i would check out sharp keys. It’s free and >>>> totally accessible under windows. Works very well. >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Jan 9, 2016, at 5:47 PM, E.T. <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Now that I completed one project, its on to the next one. I will be using >>>>> NVDA in the Windows installation under VMware. >>>>> >>>>> Is Karabiner a good app for remapping keys? >>>>> >>>>> From E.T.'s Keyboard... >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> Many believe that we have been visited >>>>> in the past. 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