{"id":687,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=687"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"101-key-keyboards-and-beos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=687","title":{"rendered":"101-key keyboards and BeOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re the extremely lucky owner of a standard 101-key (non-Windows) keyboard, then you may have noticed the apparent absence of an equivalent to the &#8222;Option&#8220; key (normally the left Windows key).<br \/>\nHowever, on any keyboard (101-key or Windows) you will find that the right-control key performs an identical function. Holding down the right-control key will let you type characters from various languages, plus many useful symbols. In addition, holding the right -control key while clicking the &#8222;up&#8220; button or a directory in OpenTracker will open the directory in a new window.<br \/>\nThe only downside to this approach is that the right-control key is in a slightly more awkward position than the real Option key, although I hope you&#8217;ll agree that the absence of the Windows logo on the keyboard more than makes up for this minor inconvenience&amp;nbsp;;)<br \/>\n<code>See also:<\/code> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betips.net\/chunga.php?ID=168\">Grok keymappings for Windows keyboards<\/a ><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.betips.net\/chunga.php?ID=661\">Typing symbols in StyledEdit and other apps<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re the extremely lucky owner of a standard 101-key (non-Windows) keyboard, then you may have noticed the apparent absence of an equivalent to the &#8222;Option&#8220; key (normally the left Windows key). However, on any keyboard (101-key or Windows) you will find that the right-control key performs an identical function. Holding down the right-control key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-interface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}