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What's that key?
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System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard > Modifier Keys....
...shows a partial list of symbols and what key they represent.
...shows a partial list of symbols and what key they represent.
⌘ = command
⌥ = option
⌃ = control
⇧ = shift
⇪ = caps lock
⎋ = escape
⌫ = delete (the one above the return key)
⌦ = forward delete (the one in the page up/down/home/end cluster)
⌧ = clear (I think, never seen it in a menu though)
⏎ = return
I think that's all of them.
⌥ = option
⌃ = control
⇧ = shift
⇪ = caps lock
⎋ = escape
⌫ = delete (the one above the return key)
⌦ = forward delete (the one in the page up/down/home/end cluster)
⌧ = clear (I think, never seen it in a menu though)
⏎ = return
I think that's all of them.
Depending on your keyboard, of course. I only see one Delete key, between the "main section" and the number pad, in the group with arrows, pg up/dn, etc.
I think that's all of them.
Or almost... Tab is an arrow (shaft and tip) pointing to a vertical line.
Backspace is the arrow without the vertical line.
Does Space have a symbol?
And if Caps Lock has a symbol, surely Num Lock does too! But, I don't know what it is.
The thing is, if there's room, the keys should have both the name and the symbol, but it's a crapshoot.
You're using a Windows keyboard, I take it? Macs refer to the Windows backspace key as "delete" as well.
There is no backspace key on a Mac. The Mac equivalent is ⌫.
Nope.
No number lock key, either, except on laptop/mini keyboards. Full-size Mac keyboards have no other mode since they don't duplicate the arrow keys unnecessarily. Number lock is always hardware-based, so the computer doesn't know that it exists. (On the Mac side, anyway. I'm not sure how it works on Windows.)
You do a forward delete on the mac with "Fn + delete" (at least that's what works on my MBP).
-- M
I'm using a USB keyboard with a Mini. It has some Windows symbols on it, and some Mac symbols as well. I didn't think much of the Apple keyboards, including the comparative price tags.
You should give the aluminum keyboards a chance. They require very little movement and finger pressure to activate a key, which is much easier on your hands. Couple that with my Dvorak keyboard layout and you have some serious ergonomic goodness.
Some say a Mechanical Keyboard is the best type to have. They are not cheap. This one advertises itself as the best on the planet, and users rave about it...
http://www.daskeyboard.com/
I may try an Apple aluminum keyboard some day, if the price comes down.
http://www.daskeyboard.com/
I may try an Apple aluminum keyboard some day, if the price comes down.
I've thought about getting that one, but I don't know that the higher travel in the keys would do much for me after a year of using the Apple keyboard. It just seems easier to use a lighter touch.