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October 06, 2007
Logitech keyboard capslock notification window of doom
I was at the office the other day, and I plugged in my logitech keyboard. It's about 3 years old, but it still works great. However, it wasn't working. I had forgotten to install the support for the keyboard, basically it's just this addon, similar to a driver for windows.
So I spend 5 minutes finding it on the logitech website, download it, and reboot the machine since that's required. So far, so good.
The machine comes back up, I log in, and the keyboard works. Awesome!
Ten minutes later I started working on something with the keyboard. As you all know based on my previous post about my use of capslock, I'm pretty heavy on using that key.
It looked something like this screenshot
Every time I hit capslock this notification would come up. EVERY. TIME. It was god awful annoying. Then I remembered a recent discussion regarding the mouse plugin event for a logitech mouse (that screenshot is from the affected user).
Long story short, this is annoying. For instance, up until this point in this blog post, I've pressed the capslock key 23 times. That'd be an enormous amount of notifications, just for this short post.
The solution is actually quite simple, and very much what was suggested on the list. Basically, it's 2 steps:
1) open /Library/Application\ Support/Logitech/LCCDaemon.app/Contents/
2) Move NotificationSquareWindow.nib and NotificationSquareWindow.nib somewhere else. I moved them to my desktop to test with.
That's it, this annoyingness goes away.
This may be weird coming from the guy who started Growl, but holy wow, I have no control over this, there's not even a silly checkbox for this. Isn't that nutty?
Posted by Chris Forsythe at 07:28 PM | Comments (1) | TrackBack
October 05, 2007
Capslock is my friend
So I was reading this post from Wolf, and was.. flabergasted.
I can't watch the video right now, but the way he describes it, I simply cannot use this new keyboard. The reason being is that I utilize capslock, rather than shift, to type.
I actually find this to be superior. Instead of something awkward like holding down a key while pushing another key, I can just toggle a key, hit the other, and toggle back. This means that I can already be in midstrike for another key rather than have to move my hand. Maybe this isn't how people use shift, but it's how I end up using shift on the number row keys.
I've even tested this theory against a diehard dvorak guy once. He'd been using dvorak for years, claimed it was better than qwerty. I don't think I care about that. However, he did say he could type faster than I could. I certainly kept up.
I tell this fact to people from time to time, and most people get shocked by this. I'm shocked people still use shift to be honest, it just seems rather strange to type a capital I by holding down one key and contorting your hand to type the i, and then releasing.
Old unix hands are probably the people I get the most shock from. The guys who had ctrl and capslock switched on sun keyboards typically think the key is useless. Luckily they don't make my keyboards. :)
So if what Wolf says ends up being the defacto for apple keyboards, I won't be able to use any new apple keyboards. Luckily, I can just plug in another keyboard. Until they do this on a laptop, then I may have to rethink using a mac. *sigh*
Posted by Chris Forsythe at 10:21 AM | Comments (10)