For me, the biggest problem with OS X is the command key / meta key situation. I have an impossible time going between Linux, Windows and Mac because of this. Any hacks people know of for this?
Hm, I feel like I've tried this and couldn't get the behaviors I wanted. How does this accomplish e.g. overloading control-C to copy across the system? You wouldn't want to map command to control, since you still want control-C to be control-C in a shell. Know what I mean?
I use Keyboard Maestro to remap ctrl-X/C/V to copy/paste everywhere except Terminal/iTerm. Same for Chrome so that the Ctrl shortcuts from Linux work on OSX as well.
Not quite however you want. It doesn't work the way it does in Linux where you can rebind keys in arbitrary ways. The built-in modification only enables a few different common/popular rebindings, but from my brief stint with OS X, I found it maddening that I couldn't get the rebinding exactly as I wanted it.
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For me, the biggest problem with OS X is the command key / meta key situation. I have an impossible time going between Linux, Windows and Mac because of this. Any hacks people know of for this?
Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Modifier Keys... and configure them however you want.
Hm, I feel like I've tried this and couldn't get the behaviors I wanted. How does this accomplish e.g. overloading control-C to copy across the system? You wouldn't want to map command to control, since you still want control-C to be control-C in a shell. Know what I mean?
I use Keyboard Maestro to remap ctrl-X/C/V to copy/paste everywhere except Terminal/iTerm. Same for Chrome so that the Ctrl shortcuts from Linux work on OSX as well.
Sweet! I'll give it a try.
Not quite however you want. It doesn't work the way it does in Linux where you can rebind keys in arbitrary ways. The built-in modification only enables a few different common/popular rebindings, but from my brief stint with OS X, I found it maddening that I couldn't get the rebinding exactly as I wanted it.