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Old March 20th, 2005, 05:59 AM
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Hi all,

After being a linux-user for years, I fell for the Mac Mini. I'm still using my good-old three button mouse, but I've invested in a shiny white apple pro keyboard. Some things confuse me though, there are about five keys off which I don't know the function.

Next to help and delete there are these arrow keys. I thought it could be:

help - home - pageup
delete - end - pagedown

but in the box where I'm writing this text (firefox) none of these keys seems functional. I'm using option-arrow for the same functions...

Then there is also the rectangle-with-a-cross key under the volume-down key. Again no idea what this does.

And under delete there is this arrow-with-an-X-inside symbol. Is this just the symbol for 'delete'


Second question:
I've already found the character map and how it nicely changes when you press the option/alt/shift keys. But I wonder if there's any printable character map to be found on the Internet.

Thanks,
Bert
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Old March 20th, 2005, 09:20 AM
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After being a linux-user for years, I fell for the Mac Mini. I'm still using my

Next to help and delete there are these arrow keys. I thought it could be:

help - home - pageup
delete - end - pagedown
It's because Firefox was written in Java. the keys work in applications specifically written for OS X (Apple Cocoa)

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Then there is also the rectangle-with-a-cross key under the volume-down key. Again no idea what this does.
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And under delete there is this arrow-with-an-X-inside symbol. Is this just the symbol for 'delete'
Yep.



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Second question:
I've already found the character map and how it nicely changes when you press the option/alt/shift keys. But I wonder if there's any printable character map to be found on the Internet.
Try KeyKaps.

Also is this your keyboard?

http://www.bluetoothshop.ru/images/m...ple_kbd_01.jpg
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Old March 20th, 2005, 12:17 PM
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Thanks for your help! And the keyboard you're pointing to is indeed the one I have (allthough I have the USB version)

One more thing though,

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Then there is also the rectangle-with-a-cross key under the volume-down key. Again no idea what this does.


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The efect button is to the right of the 'mute' button. This one below the 'volume down' button is still something else.
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