[Novalug] Used laptop guide
Rich Kulawiec
rsk@gsp.org
Sun May 28 07:43:42 EDT 2017
On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 02:51:08PM -0400, John Franklin via Novalug wrote:
> Lenovo got clever with the keyboard [...]
Two things:
First, you can use xmodmap - "the program so good you only have to run
it once" - to remap the keys. I do, which is why anybody I hand my laptop
to can't do anything with it. ;) But it lets me get rid of junk I don't
need, like tabs and caps lock, in favor of things I do need, like a
handy escape key and tilde.
Of course that won't fix all the the issues you describe, and it also
won't fix a mechanically/ergonomically bad keyboard. This brings me
to my second point, which is that one of the reasons I still use my
Lenovo 3000 C100 -- and would like to find another one in good shape --
is the keyboard. I really like the ergonomics. Unfortunately, among
the many search criteria for laptops, there doesn't seem to be one
called "find one with a keyboard as close to this one as possible". ;)
---rsk
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