Archive for the ‘KVM keyboard/video/mouse’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/30
There are odd things with the InitialKeyboardIndicators registry setting. Technet only documents bitflag value 2.
According to the docs it should be a bitflag, but sometimes you encounter InitialKeyboardIndicators value 2147483648 (0x80000000) especially as part of the .DEFAULT profile at HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard.
The problem I had was having these symptoms:
- while logging in locally, I manually turned of the NumLock (as I have a 46W6740 UltraNav keyboard without a numeric keypad)
- after logging in locally, it magically turned itself on even with
InitialKeyboardIndicators=0 in my local profile at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard.
- after logging in locally and turning it off, future local logons would keep it off
- after logging in remotely, it would magically turn itself on while logged in
- after having logged in remotely, the local logon console would have it turned on again
After reading Num Lock problem: Strange number in InitialKeyboardIndicators in Registry, I set both values to 0.
Now that it is 0 in both at HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Keyboard and HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Keyboard, symptoms 4-5 still hold. Strange.
It is not the same problem as Num Lock state not retained after resume from Hybrid Shutdown in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.
If it persist, I might just put a script in: [Partially Solved: re-wired keyboard lol] Registry key “InitialKeyboardIndicators” NEVER keeps NumLock ON + ScrollLock ON (6) at startup and reverts back to NumLock ON (2).
–jeroen
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Posted in Conference Topics, Conferences, Event, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, KVM keyboard/video/mouse, Power User, ThinkPad, UltraNav keyboards, Windows | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/28
One of the things I missed in the Atom editor is a keyboard macro recording/playback.
I tried atom-keyboard-macros but it doesn’t work reliably.
Not sure where it fails as the failure patterns are inconclusive.
Anyone having a better experience?
–jeroen
Posted in atom editor, Development, Hardware, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, KVM keyboard/video/mouse, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Text Editors | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/05
Unlike most applications where F3 is search next, Office has their own thought about keyboard shortcuts.
So in Word for Windows, you can use these:
- Find next:
- “RepeatFind”: Shift+F4 or Ctrl+Alt+Y.
- “Browse next item”: Control+PageDown.
- Find previous:
- “Browse previous item”: Control+PageUp.
–jeroen
via:
Posted in Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Office, Power User, Word | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/09/01
Thanks Primož Gabrijelčič for reminding me on Stack Overflow that Alt + Down opens the dialogs behind ellipsis buttons in the Delphi IDE.
It’s the CUA and Windows short-cut to open drop-down lists (comboboxes) and for opening drop-down list for a property in the object inspector, but I never realised also would work for these ellipsis buttons.
This was my original stack-overflow question: Is there a keyboard shortcut for the ellipsis buttons of the Project Options in the Delphi IDE?
The Project Options in the Delphi IDE has a few option (like the Search Path) each with an ellipsis button (the one on the right having only three dots ... in the image below) to pop-up a dialog.
What keyboard shortcut activates that button?
–jeroen
Via: Object Inspector Keyboard Shortcuts – RAD Studio
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 10 Seattle, Delphi 10.1 Berlin (BigBen), Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi x64, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Delphi XE6, Delphi XE7, Delphi XE8, Development, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/07/19
There is a little trick to disable “Known IDE Packages”: you can stop Delphi from loading one by either making “Value data” of the registry blank, or prepending it with an underscore:
packages that might have been disabled, by checking any string entries where the data has been pre-pended with an underscore OR is blank
[WayBack] Access violation at address 00000000 read of address 00000000, when starting the IDE or opening a project after installing the updates
I’ve pre-pended underscores to some packages in the registry key [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Borland|Codegear|Embarcadero\BDS|Delphi\#.0\Known IDE Packages] and intend to keep the list below updated over time.
Note that you have to prepend the description with an underscore: it is not sufficient to add these to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Borland|Codegear|Embarcadero\BDS\#.0\Disabled Packages].
Empirically, the Disabled Packages seem to work only for packages starting with dcl in their filename.
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Posted in Castalia, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Delphi XE8, Development, Event, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, Software Development | 5 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/01
IRC so: »i> Isotopp: Ich habe jetzt nen Mac als Arbeitsplatzrechner… Was will man als UNIX Hacker zuerst an Tools installieren?«
Source: IRC so: »i> Isotopp: Ich habe jetzt nen Mac als Arbeitsplatzrechner… Was will… by Kristian Köhntopp.
Since G+ is very bad at searching, I created this summary of the tools; read the full G+ post (Google Translate is quite OK), including comments on why.
Edit: 20160402 – I’m posting regular updates based on the comments for that G+ post. I’ve changed or added German iTunes store links to US-English ones.
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Posted in Apple, Audacity, Audio, Fusion, Hardware, Keybase, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, KVM keyboard/video/mouse, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Pro, Media, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.11 El Capitan, Power User, Security, VirtualBox, Virtualization, VMware | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/19
Just updated Cool: Vysor screen sharing by Koush with this:
Edit 20160217: new keyboard/mouse shortcuts
- Old: keyboard shortcuts
Escape -> Back Button;F1 -> Menu Button;Home -> Home Button;
- New: mouse shortcuts
Middle Click -> Home;Right Click -> Back
Now hopefully the screen resolution thing will be fixed: [Wayback/Archive] github.com/koush/vysor.io/issues/68
–jeroen
Posted in Android, Android Devices, Chrome, Development, Google, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, KVM keyboard/video/mouse, Mobile Development, Power User, Vysor | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/10
Thanks User Josh Close – Stack Overflow. for answering the below on Stack Overflow: it got my Resharper Alt-Enter key workign again.
Re-apply Visual Studio keyboard scheme:
- (VS2013 latest ReSharper)
- ReSharper > Options > Environment > Keyboard & Menus > ReSharper Platform keyboard scheme: Visual Studio > Apply Scheme > Save.
- This will reset the shortcut keys for ReSharper.
- (older versions)
- ReSharper > Options > Environment > General > Visual Studio Integration > Apply
–jeroen
via: visual studio – Resharper Alt Enter not working – Stack Overflow.
Posted in .NET, C#, Development, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, Software Development, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio and tools | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/04
Back in the late 80s and early 90s of last century, engineers Richard E. Berry, Cliff J. Reeves set a standard that still influences the user interfaces and user experience of today: the IBM Common User Access.
I mentioned CUA a few times before, but since an old client of mine managed to throw away their paper originals in a “we don’t need that old stuff any more as we are now all digital” frenzy, I wanted to locate some PDFs. And I promised to write more about CUA.
If anyone has printed versions of the non-PDF documents below, please donate them to aek at bitsavers.org or scanning at archive.org as they are really hard to get.
A few search queries I used:
The PDFs I think are most interesting:
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Posted in BitSavers.org, Development, History, IBM SAA CUA, Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, Software Development, UI Design, Usability, User Experience (ux) | 3 Comments »
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 
