Posts tagged with: keyboard

It's been a while since I last ran Opera on Solaris and there have been a lot of changes, so I thought I'd take if for a spin. Well, so far so good. The performance is pretty impressive, even when compared to Firefox 3, however it's still early days yet, so I can't say if it'll suit my needs entirely. Anyway, one thing that annoyed me straight away is Opera doesn't acknowledge the Sun Type 5, Type 6 and Type 7 keyboard copy, paste, cut shortcut keys. It doesn't take the settings from the windowing environment and there isn't any ... Continue reading ►

I heard about Synergy quite some time ago, but never actually got around to playing with it. Well, yesterday I changed that and took the time to play with it, and I'm quite impressed. To quote the Synergy site: Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system uses its own monitor(s). This sounds like my desk. I use a Sunray (snv_81 on SPARC servers) as my primary working environment and then I have an Ultra 20 (snv_80 on x86) next to me which I use for testing, playing and supporting customers on x86. Continue reading ►