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Title: Zaurus Sl-c860 Modifier Keys
Post by: gbrocks on April 28, 2005, 03:51:02 am

Do any of the keys on the Zaurus SL-C860 provide the functionality of Ctrl & Alt keys?
If not, are we 860 users just stuck without that funtionality?

Title: Zaurus Sl-c860 Modifier Keys
Post by: Stubear on April 28, 2005, 10:36:35 am

Shift+Fn acts as Ctrl, can't remember if there is a default combo for Alt.

If you want to map other keys to Ctrl and Alt have a look at keyhelper (search the forums there is a heap of info on this app) or install Cacko which use keyhelper built into cyrillica to map keyboard keys (as well as providing virtual keyboards on screen)

Stu

Title: Zaurus Sl-c860 Modifier Keys
Post by: ZDevil on April 28, 2005, 10:58:03 am

Or try Cacko rom (a MUCH improved flavor of the original Sharp ROM).  I have just flashed it and am very happy to see that keyhelper is already built-in (plus a wealth of other goodies of course  ).

Title: Zaurus Sl-c860 Modifier Keys
Post by: Meyer on May 13, 2005, 01:41:40 am

I love the SL-Cxxx keyboard. It's a great boon for mobile typing. But control-keys are not one of its strengths. With the Z I tend to avoid applications that make much use of control-key sequences.

As mentioned above, Fn-Shift-... can generally be used for Ctrl-... (if you can contort your fingers enough). Also, at least for some applications, Cancel-... works like Alt-...