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United States		 2007-05-21 23:15:42 

  


  

    Hi all 

I am looking into orca and linux for the first time.  I am a student at UC Berkeley and much of my computing history consists of windows.  Within the last year, I changed over to mac OS X with voiceover and am now looking at a summer project that does not inclued windows.  

My first question is as follows.  I want to run ubuntu linux on my macbook pro using a virtual computer with VMWare Fusion.  I have no idea what I am doing or the problems that i will encounter and any help in installing/ using orca that I should know please feel free to mention it.  The probleme that I have forseen at this point is with my keyboard.  I was looking at commands like alt f2, and insert enter.  My apple keyboard does not have an insert or alt key.  I used windows with it and had jaws key set to caps lock, and the alt key is the option key (where the windows key would be if this were not a mac.)  Does anyone have some help they could offer on this?  Is anyone in a similar situation?

Thanks and I look forward to hopefully entering the world of linux

 
Justin Harford 

"A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become."

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     2007-05-22 08:55:47
  


  

    
Hi Justin,
> My apple keyboard does not have an insert or alt key.

My powerbook keyboard has the Alt key, two to the left
of the space bar. It's also marked "option". For
laptops,
you can adjust the keyboard layout from "desktop"
to
"laptop". See the first option on the General pane
in the
Orca Preferences dialog. This then uses the Caps Lock
key instead of the Insert key for chorded commands. In
other words, Insert+Enter becomes Caps_Lock+Enter.

There is also a keyboard mapping pane in the Preferences
dialog. From there you can adjust any key bindings you
want to.
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