From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 13 20:45:00 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50BA716A46C for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:45:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0199713C461 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:44:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B5AC2089; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:44:50 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Tests: AWL X-Spam-Learn: disabled X-Spam-Score: -0.1/3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on tim.des.no Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [80.203.243.180]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id E114B2049; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:44:49 +0100 (CET) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C58C5844AF; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:44:49 +0100 (CET) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: "Jason C. Wells" References: <7b233cbfabc5d3002f54794112b77d75@localhost> <868x40cjzi.fsf@ds4.des.no> <4760057E.5040406@highperformance.net> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:44:49 +0100 In-Reply-To: <4760057E.5040406@highperformance.net> (Jason C. Wells's message of "Wed\, 12 Dec 2007 07\:59\:58 -0800") Message-ID: <863au6gw8u.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keyboard X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:45:00 -0000 "Jason C. Wells" writes: > I really like my Logitech Ultra X. It's an OEM keyboard and not > available in stores. I got mine at Newegg for about $20. For me the > tactile scissor switch i.e laptop style keys are preferred. It is one > of few modern keyboards that don't try to _improve_the layout. It's a > straight PC104 layout. Now if I could just get X Windows to use the > media keys. I use those exclusively; it feels just like a laptop keyboard, so I don't have to adapt every time I dock my laptop or sit down at a workstation. The media keys work just fine in Gnome and Xfce. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no