Comments on: MacBook keyboard pains and VirtualBox/VMWare

By: MrCranky

MrCranky — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:12:00 +0000

D’oh! There was me getting my hopes up as well. Thanks for the work you did, it’s definitely a frustration when the keys are all in the wrong place and with no easy way to do anything about it, and I’m sure your solution will help others.

Sadly I wonder if the keyboards differ between the MacBook and the MacBook Pro? My MBP has the ~/` key next to the Z, and the §/± key up next to the 1. It also, annoyingly, doesn’t have a right ALT key, which means that I lose the Euro and hash symbols altogether! So it’s searching on for another solution for me…

By: greg

greg — Sat, 15 May 2010 16:04:02 +0000

Thank you ! Works a treat.

By: spgennard

spgennard — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:45:56 +0000

The link has been updated… it should have been..
– http://www.gennard.net/downloads/macBook_CustomKeyboard.zip

By: franck

franck — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:10:41 +0000

Hi there, thanks a lot for publishing your work but thing is the link seems dead, could you update the link please?
I would really like to use it as it is exactly what I need!
Thanks in advance and best wishes for the new year!
CHeers

By: dam0ne

dam0ne — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:40:25 +0000

Hi there spgennard, could you please elaborate a bit on how did you make the custom layout? I have the same problem you had, but with a spanish layout keyboard. Thanks in advance.

By: spgennard

spgennard — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:47:17 +0000

Hi.

I used the Microsoft keyboard layout program which you can download from below. I choose the nearest keyboard layout to my keyboard and then went though the keyboard.

I sometimes has to use a command prompt to get the hex values of the keys… (using od -cx).

It is a bit of fiddley process but doable.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964665.aspx