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by **Justin L. Gaith** » Thu, 28 Nov 1996 04:00:00

I was wondering if anyone has a picture of the gateway 124 anykey keyboard,
I am looking for a keyboard with the same layout as a sun keyboard to connect
to my intel linux box. Also, I was wondering how well the anykey keyboard works
with Linux.

by **bill pembert** » Fri, 29 Nov 1996 04:00:00

>I was wondering if anyone has a picture of the gateway 124 anykey keyboard,
>I am looking for a keyboard with the same layout as a sun keyboard to connect
>to my intel linux box. Also, I was wondering how well the anykey keyboard
>works with Linux.

only major problem i had was not being able to change the keyboard typamatic
rate. i think the gateway anykey was cited as an absolute exception to the
kbdrate function. my man page could be out of date wrt this. it wasn't a
bad keyboard but i have decided i really want a mechanical switch keyboard.
can anyone make recommendations on that?

--

searching for "macarena" in japanese.

by **Chaim Frenk** » Sat, 30 Nov 1996 04:00:00

No problems with the keyboard on my machine. On my Anykey keyboard is
a `Repeat Rate' key. Pressing that and then the F8 key gives me plenty
of repeat.

<chaim>

: >I was wondering if anyone has a picture of the gateway 124 anykey keyboard,
: >I am looking for a keyboard with the same layout as a sun keyboard to connect
: >to my intel linux box. Also, I was wondering how well the anykey keyboard
: >works with Linux.
: >

: >
:
: only major problem i had was not being able to change the keyboard typamatic
: rate. i think the gateway anykey was cited as an absolute exception to the
: kbdrate function. my man page could be out of date wrt this. it wasn't a
: bad keyboard but i have decided i really want a mechanical switch keyboard.
: can anyone make recommendations on that?

by **Victor A. Grinber** » Mon, 06 Jan 1997 04:00:00

Quote:> only major problem i had was not being able to change the keyboard typamatic
> rate. i think the gateway anykey was cited as an absolute exception to the
> kbdrate function. my man page could be out of date wrt this. it wasn't a

The Anykey has this special "rate" key that lets you set the rate
manually -- push "rate", then push one of F1 thru F8. The problem you
describe is due to the fact that the standard, programmatic, key rate
control on Anykey is screwed up. Not that it should be too much of a
nuisance, because the manual contrl works. I used to have Anykey on my
computer at work, and I really hated it -- the layout is different from
the standard, and that really *is* a nuisance for me.

I don't have a picture here, but this is what I remember:

* There are two clusters of F keys, 12 up top, as on the standard 101
key keyboard, and an additional cluster on the left like on the old XT
keyboards. I don't remember if the XT-style cluster replicates all 12,
or just 10 of the F keys.

* The usual "inverted T" arrow key cluster is replaced with a 9-key
cluster -- 4 additional "diaogonal" arrows, and a stupid useless key in
the middle.

* There are 4 special keys, in the top right corner, that are used to
manually remap the keys on the keyboard, assign macros to keys, and
change repeat rate.

Hope this helps. I don't think there are any other differences.

The macro capability allows to program any key with any sequence of
codes, which may come in handy if you, say, need 20 F keys, and have
some time to F... with it:) I don't think any of the Sun keyoards I seen
match Anykey layout any better than the standard PC layout; though X
consortium type 5 also has a cluster of function keys on the left, I
think. Besides, newer Gateways come with standard keyboards, I think
they dumped Anykey.
-vg

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