Use macOS-style modifier keys (wishlist)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Switchboard Keyboard Plug |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I'm using a Macintosh-style keyboard with Loki and would like my modifier keys to work as they do in OS X. That is, I would like:
* to copy, paste, new window with Super (Cmd) by default and not Ctrl
* option/alt and the arrow keys to jump whole words
* option/
* essentially the shortcuts as the OS X column says here: https:/
I thought that by choosing the "English (Macintosh)" keyboard layout that this would happen automatically—would that be a bug or a feature request? (Is there any elementary OS-internal way to activate this? If not, what is the easiest external tool that already has a profile/config set up for this use case?)
Was recommended to take this request here from http://
description: | updated |
affects: | elementaryos → switchboard-plug-keyboard |
Changed in switchboard-plug-keyboard: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
information type: | Public → Public Security |
information type: | Public Security → Public |
To add to this, the same way that OS X lets users customize system shortcuts (http:// www.howtogeek. com/howto/ 39520/how- to-change- the-cmdq- shortcut- key-in- os-x-to- stop-accidental ly-closing- apps/), it would be the nice to do the same here.
I do not want to remap my Super (⌘) as Ctrl--I want it to remain Super, distinct from Ctrl's other uses--but I do want to switch the default modifier key for most system functions (copy/paste, new window/tab, select all, ability to move between words and pages with shift/option/ command keys)