Can I swap the Function and Control keys?

Is it possible to swap the Function and Control keys?

With limitations; yes. Go to System Preferences and select Keyboards & Mouse and add your choices. Keep in mind that such chances will affect all well intended Apple commands and may end up driving you crazy!
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Switch the function and control keys

Sounds like a stupid request but my life would be much simpler if my Lenova T540p keyboard had the function and control keys switched. I use the control key ALOT and having it to the far left hand lower corner would be awesome.
Thank you.
R

Hey there Redrabbit,
Try your BIOS. For me (Thinkpad T540p), it's in Config>Keyboard/Mouse>Switch FN and CTRL keys.

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How can I swap the Fn and Ctrl keys on ideacentre b550 touch?

The BIOS feature that you request already exists.
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Swapping Function and Control keys on a Lenovo Laptop

Lenovo laptops reverse the usual positions of the Function and Control keys (see this photo). It seems like a minor problem, but it is very frustrating.
How can I swap these keys? I have tried various xmodmap configurations (some based on the examples provided in the manual and some based on this eerily similar question), but nothing seems to work.
Additional information
Fn keycode: 151, Fn name: XF86WakeUp
Left Control keycode: 37, Left Control name: Control_L
Thanks in advance, best community ever.

keenerd wrote:Ponder why you got a Thinkpad, then (optionally) swap them back.
Free laptop from work. The hardware interface isn't great, but I'm not complaining. :-)
Anyway, that worked beautifully. Thanks for the tip!

Apple AL Bluetooth Keyboard - Tab, Caps Lock, Function and Control keys just stopped working

Hi All -
All of a sudden I get on my baby, 27" iMac OSX 10.6 and the some keys on the bluetooth keyboard do not work. Specifially the Tab, Caps Lock, Function and Control keys. I'm fine with the caps lock gone (why is it there?) but the others are useful.
I've searched all over for a solution but I haven't found one. Tried to upgrade the firmware which is fine, reset the PRAM done, checked the speech per apple support nadda.
Please help.
Thanks
-M

Hi
Go to System preferances > Universal Access > Mouse or Mousie and trackpad > and turn your Mouse keys off.
Then disconnect and reconnect your keyboard.
Note that you don't open your mouse under hardware in System Preferances, this is for a whole different group of settings
Hope This helps

How can I use the F14 and F15 key for a shortcut?

Hi folks,
I've been trying to assign custom shortcuts to the F14 and F15 keys of my keyboard (wired, full sized type) on my Mac Pro 2008 running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2 however every time I try to assign those keys to an app's "Record a shortcut" function I get the same error dialog from the OS:
The key combination F15 can't be used!
The key combination "F15" can't be used because it's already used by a system-wide keyboard shortcut. (If you really want to use this key combination, most shortcuts can be changed in the Keyboard & Mouse panel in System Preferences.)
(note: the same happens with F14, F13 and lower as well as F16+ work fine however)
I have looked into my system settings as the dialog suggests however there isn't a single shortcut that uses F14 or F15 anywhere in any of the shortcut groups.
If any of you have an idea of how I could "clear" or even just find out what these keys are currently being used for/by that would be super… they don't seem to do or trigger anything when I press them.
Here is another screenshot of the issue:
Note: This is not app specific, I've tried this in various apps and every time I get the same Mac OS popup.
Thanks for reading,
I look forward to your ideas and insights!

Hi,
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Ray Farmer

With 2 monitors, can I swap the primary and secondary screen?

In other words, I have 2 different sized monitors, one running from ADC, the other DVI, but it is defaulting to using the smaller screen as the primary one which I don't want. I can't swap the leads round because I can't convert ADC to VGA so i need to do it inside of OS X. Is this possible? Cheers

Open up the Displays System Preference and drag the screens to the proper place in order to change the screens around.

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Image of the Escape and Control key.

Hey,
I couldnt find anywhere better to put this :P.
I recorded a video on 10.5.7 and it shows the ^ key for control, and the escape icon for when I pushed the ESC key.
Does anyone know where I can find images like this.
But with Control key and Esc?

http://www.mrmont.com/teachers/Stencils/MacModifierKeys.png
or maybe this is good enough

X301 - is it possible to swap the Fn and Ctrl keys?

I've seen an option in the bios on other Lenovo models, but cannot find a way to swap the keys on the x301.
I love this notebook, but this is terrible design. Every other keyboard in the world places the Cttrl key in the bottom left hand corner.Ugh...

Welcome to the forum!
You might have seen the "BIOS switch" option on some other brands, but no Lenovo notebook offers it.
Cheers,
George
In daily use: R60F, R500F, T61, T410
Collecting dust: T60
Enjoying retirement: A31p, T42p,
Non-ThinkPads: Panasonic CF-31 & CF-52, HP 8760W
Starting Thursday, 08/14/2014 I'll be away from the forums until further notice. Please do NOT send private messages since I won't be able to read them. Thank you.

I need an option to remap reprogram or swap the ctrl and function keys on my laptop

Open letter to Lenovo
How many Lenovo laptop users does it take to get a change or option added to remap, reassign, reprogram or swap the two keys on the lower left of the keybards with each other?
The number one question I'm asked (and the first question I asked of a lenovo laptop user) was how long did it take to get used to the function key being in the wrong place on the keyboard? I did a search on the web and found a number of threads that discussed and talked about if it were possible to switch those two keys on the keyboard such as this: http://www.ashbaughonline.com/2006/08/12/thinkpad-fn-ctrl-key/ The point being is there are many lenovo laptop users that would love to have the option at least of swapping the function and ctrl key location on the keyboard and we wouldn't even complain that the key names were wrong afterwards if it were made available in some BIOS or other configuration setting.
Lenovo, how many users would need to ask for this option to make it happen?
Please add me to those who would like to see this happen and to anyone else please reply and chime in.

I have the same problem, and I really can't understand why do they do such things! I even can't get a normal answer from Lenovo about it. I like Thinkpads, they are great designed & they have a lot of unique features, most of them could be customized, exept this! Why??? I can't belive that it's so hard to remap 2 buttons using BIOS! The problem is that the FN key doesn't generate a scan code, which could be recognized by the software, i tried numerous programs to remap the FN button, but it's useless. You can do it only in 2 ways: 1. mechanical - to swap them fisically, but it's hard, dangerous & the warranty will be lost of course. 2. BIOS remapping which can be done only by Lenovo or maybe by somobody, who can hack the BIOS. So, Dear Lenovo Experts PLEASE do this feature for us, we REALLY neeed it! We need it much more than "keyboard customizer", more than "easy eject", more than "media center" becouse we use the left CTRL button every minute, working on your notebook!

Want to swap FN and CONTROL keys: Hope of BIOS support?

I hate the Lenovo placement of the FN key where most systems have Control. I've experimented with operating system changes to remap keys, but these have failed. In the Ubuntu Linux email list, people contend the swap of the FN and Control must be made in the BIOS because of the way the FN key functions.
If you know of a software method to swap the FN and CONTROL keys, please tell me.
If you have any information about using the BIOS to do that, please tell me.
PJ

Welcome to the forum!
Although enabling this swap in BIOS has been a wish expressed by many new users coming to the ThinkPad world, no BIOS currently supports it.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
George
In daily use: R60F, R500F, T61, T410
Collecting dust: T60
Enjoying retirement: A31p, T42p,
Non-ThinkPads: Panasonic CF-31 & CF-52, HP 8760W
Starting Thursday, 08/14/2014 I'll be away from the forums until further notice. Please do NOT send private messages since I won't be able to read them. Thank you.

How to customize function and control menus

I am making the painful transition from 7.1 to 8.6. How can I customize the function and control menus, and have them always come up the same way on a right-click?
Otherwise it takes several clicks to display the useful items, wasting time and effort.

Dennis,
It looks like this was never continued, but I have the same querstion. It seems like now when I right click up the menu I get what you see in the Not Very Useful Menu jpeg, and I have to clcik 3 more times to get to the More Useful Menu.
Can this be changed by some option setting? I haven't found it and I wish I could.
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Renco Encoders, Inc
Goleta, CA
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How to remap keyboard - Looking to switch the "fn" and "control" buttons?

Hi I was looking for a way to switch the function and control on the bottom left side of the keyboard on my macbook pro laptop. I am used to the control button being the button that is furthest to the left and its just really throwing me off having the fn key all the way to the left. If anyone knows how to remap these keys, I would really appreciate the help.
Thank you.

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I need to reprogram the delete and enter key to the left side of a external keyboard for the ipad mini. don't need the caps/lock or ctrl key and due to an injury my daughter can only use her left hand to type. She is using a text to speech app to verbaliz

I need to reprogram the delete and enter key to the left side of a external keyboard for the ipad mini. I don't need the caps/lock or ctrl key. Due to a brain injury my daughter can only use her left hand to type. She also uses a text to speech app to verbalize all of her needs since her speech isn't intelligible any longer either. And her vision was significantly affected also, so the keyboard has to be mounted about 6 inches from her face. So to reach across the keyboard with her left hand to the right side delete and enter button is physically difficult and causes typing errors, which cause people to not understand what shes trying to say.
The best keyboard so far is the Zagg folio mini. I just had to make stickers to enlarge the letters on the key buttons.
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