{"id":456,"date":"2010-01-09T22:54:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T21:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/?p=456"},"modified":"2010-01-09T22:54:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T21:54:33","slug":"macbook-custom-keyboard-virtualbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gennard.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/macbook-custom-keyboard-virtualbox\/","title":{"rendered":"MacBook keyboard pains and VirtualBox\/VMWare"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

The default UK keyboard mapping on a MacBook are pretty much useless when using Virtual PC emulators such VirtualBox or VMWARE.<\/p>\n

With this in mind, have produced a custom keyboard layout which maps all the keys to right place.<\/p>\n

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:<\/p>\n

\u20ac aka left OPT 2 is mapped to right ALT 2<\/p>\n

# aka left OPT 3 is mapped to right ALT 3<\/p>\n

To use the customer keyboard mapping, download the .zip, unzip it.. and click on mbkbdsetup.exe and it will install the custom keyboard called “United Kindom – MacBook – Custom<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

And this me using it… boy did this make more productive!<\/p>\n

This a screen shot me trying it out… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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(link fixed)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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