Re: Laptop-type keyboard for desktop

Chronos wrote:
After replacing Parish with a small shell script on Wednesday 22 Feb
2006 19:55, the following appeared on stdout:

Reason? Nobody seems to make a half decent desktop keyboard anymore.

You're not wrong. I still have three old IBM keyboards here, the one and
only Model M is the one I'm typing on. If you find any keyboards
without Windoze keys, I would be interested. Cherry Linux [1] keyboards
aside, that is.

[1] FreeBSD is the primary, secondary and tertiary OS here...

I'm typing this on a FreeBSD (RELENG_6) box which, I must confess, dual boots XP and the little ITX under my feet is my mail server running 4.10-RELEASE [note to self: cvsup a new tree and rebuild the world].

My current keyboard is a Compaq silver 'n' black KU-0133 (with 'doze keys) which had a nice feel when I first started using it but is beginning to deteriorate.

Actually, I find the extra 'doze keys useful in X as you can map them to Meta - useful if you use Emacs.

Parish
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