Mon, 10 Apr 2006

The Apple Keyboard - part deux!

I have finally tackled and overcome my issues with the iBook keyboard. Thanks to some more poking on the internet I came across Ukelele which allows you to build up the XML keyboard definition files using a graphical editor. Starting from a UK keyboard layout, I've managed to put all the keys that I could think of (or at least the ones that were annoying me the most) in the right places. I am now happy.
To save any other Irish or United Kingdom keyboard users the hassle, just:

grab my Keyboard Layout file (zip archive)
and unzip it into your /Library/Keyboard Layouts/ directory.
Log out and log back in again (or restart your machine) to reload the keyboard layouts available.
Now you've logged back in again, go to System Preferences and select International.
In the Input Menu you should now have a keyboard called IRE-gareth. This is set up as a Roman script keyboard type, since Mac OS X requires it, AFAICS.

Enjoy. I will update the icon to not include the little 'U' that implies 'unicode' but that's a job for another day :-)
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