{"id":927,"date":"2015-03-20T09:31:06","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T17:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/?p=927"},"modified":"2015-03-20T09:31:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T17:31:07","slug":"microsoft-keyboard-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/20\/microsoft-keyboard-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Keyboard Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I foolishly installed the Intellipoint drivers for my Microsoft Keyboard 4000, and have been frustrated ever since. I assume it&#8217;s because it&#8217;s a Microsoft product on a Mac.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway. This is the solution.<\/p>\n<p>First, <a href=\"http:\/\/david.rothlis.net\/keyboards\/microsoft_natural_osx\/\">uninstall the Microsoft drivers<\/a> as described there.<\/p>\n<p>Second, open the keyboard preferences pane:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/befuddledsenses\/16686928638\" title=\"Mac OSX Keyboard Prefs by Luke Jones, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8580\/16686928638_7f0419d614.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"448\" alt=\"Mac OSX Keyboard Prefs\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then swap the modifier keys as follows:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/befuddledsenses\/16873540431\" title=\"Mac OSX Keyboard Prefs by Luke Jones, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8622\/16873540431_709451aaff.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"351\" alt=\"Mac OSX Keyboard Prefs\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I foolishly installed the Intellipoint drivers for my Microsoft Keyboard 4000, and have been frustrated ever since. I assume it&#8217;s because it&#8217;s a Microsoft product on a Mac. Anyway. This is the solution. First, uninstall the Microsoft drivers as described there. Second, open the keyboard preferences pane: Then swap the modifier keys as follows:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,52],"tags":[839,96,120],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-technology","tag-keyboard","tag-mac-2","tag-microsoft-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-eX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}