The ramblings of a yorkshire tyke » hash key http://www.gennard.net/blog Life, Rants and Programming In A Blog Sun, 22 Aug 2010 15:16:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 MacBook keyboard pains and VirtualBox/VMWare http://www.gennard.net/blog/2010/01/macbook-custom-keyboard-virtualbox/ http://www.gennard.net/blog/2010/01/macbook-custom-keyboard-virtualbox/#comments Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:54:33 +0000 spgennard http://www.gennard.net/blog/?p=456 As a MacBook user who has used Virtualisation on the mac for sometime now but only usually with Linux based OS, I was forced to use it with Windows recently and I quickly found out how badly it handles UK Macbook keyboards.

The default UK keyboard mapping on a MacBook are pretty much useless when using Virtual PC emulators such VirtualBox or VMWARE.

With this in mind, have produced a custom keyboard layout which maps all the keys to right place.

The only two exceptions are the two OPT keys, which I could only managed to map them to ALT-n keys, so the alternative mapping for these are:

€ aka left OPT 2 is mapped to right ALT 2

# aka left OPT 3 is mapped to right ALT 3

To use the customer keyboard mapping, download the .zip, unzip it.. and click on mbkbd\setup.exe and it will install the custom keyboard called “United Kindom – MacBook – Custom“.

And this me using it… boy did this make more productive!

This a screen shot me trying it out… :-)

(link fixed)

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