using iMac keyboard

[Eric D.]

Een Belg! Hoe gaat'? (half Dutch myself).

Anyway, the option key is the alt key (should even be labelled alt on the
iCrap keyboard). If you (or your school mates) would rather use a real
keyboard, just plug one in. So far, every keyboard I've ever tried works
with USB Macs.

As for "pipe", it's shift-backslash (shift-\) on my keyboard (ADB Apple
Extended Keybd II (the best keyboard ever made IMNSHO)), and "at"
(aapestaartje?) should be shift-2. But... I just realised that I'm using a
US/Canadian keyboard so you may not have these keys in the same place, or
even at all.

PS In OS 9 (if you run OS 9) you can easily re-map your own keyboard with
ResEdit (it's ultra simple & b/c I had to do some heavy duty data entry
recently I customised my keyboard layout (copy the resource) so I could do
one-handed data entry).

Eric.

on 12/8/02 17:08, jeroen at jeroen.clarysse@easynet.be wrote:

> I'm a total newbie to linux, trying to get he most basic things running for
> our school imac (old model, 233MHz bondi blue) that was donated by one of
> the parents. It's too slow for OSX, and OS9 is crashing too much, so we
> thought to try out yellowdog, which turns out to be quite a bit more
> difficult than expected.
> 
> the biggest issue is that I can't type ALT or ALT-GR characters on the imac
> keyboard (you know, the little compact one). How for instance do I type a
> pipe symbol ? or an @  ??
> 
> 
> 
> many thanks fro this n00b !