The UK keyboard is on the top and the US keyboard is on the bottom. The UK keyboard is wireless, so that's why the keys are squished together in places. To get the meaningless differences out of the way first: Since my region is set to 'UK' the 2 and 3 keys (highlighted in yellow) behave the same no matter which keyboard I use.
Best free video editing software. You want your Apple keyboard to work for windows? Behold the Apple UK Keyboard Layout for Windows Installer.
When I wrote it I was using one of these:
… but the Apple layout hasn't changed, so this layout works for current Apple keyboards.
Some third party keyboards have one less key: the ± § key is missing and the ` ~ key takes its place. For that I use autohotkey — see below.
Remove Keyboard Layout on Mac; How to Change Default Keyboard Layout on Mac. Launch System Preferences on your Mac. Now, click on Keyboard. On the next screen, click on the 'Input Sources tab' and then click on the '+' button that is located on the bottom left. Next up, select the desired language on. Setting the keyboard layout in the login window did not affect even the initial keyboard layout when logged in. Now,.initial. is not good enough, for as soon as I select, for example, one of the time fields for an iCal event, the keyboard layout goes Swedish Pro (which was the layout I first chose when installing the OS). Oct 01, 2020 Windows keyboard layouts map the physical keys of the keyboard to the actual character (or action). While keyboard layouts are well defined for different languages, Apple keyboards are not fully compatible with Windows. Click here for all standard Windows Keyboard Layouts. I love what Apple have done with the Japanese keyboard's enter key (but there the brackets are much worse): Image If I order new I definitely order the US style, but since I often buy refurbs I don't get to have that choice.
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The 2020 Windows 10 update required me to reinstall the keyboard layout — it appeared in the language settings keyboard list but not in the taskbar list of available keyboards. Reinstall-repair fixed it.
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Swapping between Mac and Windows
The 2020 Windows 10 update required me to reinstall the keyboard layout — it appeared in the language settings keyboard list but not in the taskbar list of available keyboards. Reinstall-repair fixed it.
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Swapping between Mac and Windows
A further problem for constant Mac-PC swappers is repeated Cmd and Ctrl shortcut confusion: You want to type Cmd-X for cut and suddenly the Win-X menu comes up instead.
My preferred solution for this is an AutoHotkey script, partly because after using Autohotkey for a few weeks I realised it is utterly brilliant, an all-singing, all-dancing customise-your-Windows-in-every-way tool, with an all-but-zero footprint.
My script is https://gist.github.com/chrisfcarroll/dddf32fea1f29e75f564, which also has shortcut keys for arranging windows on a big screen.
The other reason I use autohotkey is that it enables a cherry-picking approach to swapping or duplicating Cmd-key/Ctrl-key shortcuts, which I find works much much better than doing a straight Cmd<=>Ctrl key swap. I got this approach from the keyboard layout used by Parallels on the Mac, which simply duplicated common shortcuts such as Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V to the Cmd-key. If you swap regularly between Mac & PC, this approach works well.
Inverting Mouse Scroll Direction
Since about the time that iPhone launched, OS X scroll direction, both mouse and keyboard, has used the metaphor of 'push the document up to move it up the window' rather than the previous 'push the scroll bar up to move the document down the window.' Windows has stayed firmly on the scrollbar metaphor.
Oddly enough, Microsoft mice come with a Windows driver that let you reverse scroll direction via the UI. For other mice, you can FlipFlopScrollWheel. Oddly, this is not per-user but per mouse/usb port combination, which means if you plug the same mouse into a different port it scrolls in the opposite direction. It also means that having run the script, you must unplug the mouse, wait a second, and plug it back in again.
Back to the Keyboard
Macbook Pro Keyboard Layout
If you do want a complete Cmd<=>Ctrl key swap, then you do it with Randy'sSharpKeys. Free video trimming software for pc.
Warning! You can't swap keys around with it so do just this: map Left-Windows key to Left-Control. Free recording studio software audacity. The right windows key will then still open the Windows menu and do all the Windows-Key stuff that it should do, such as Windows-L for Lock screen/Switch User:
Macbook Pro Keyboard
If you want other keyboards than Apple UK, download the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator to tweak your layout.
