Pro 3 keyboard overlay

[bananas33]

Just got a Pro 3 and was surprised to find a UK keyboard overlay at the bttom of the box.  It seems like a well-moulded silicone thing which I might even use but for it having Delete top right, the power button.  That’d take me longer to get used to than US layout and I haven’t found any way to change it – the overlay shows power as Fn-F10 – so it seems a weird and pointless addition.

Have I missed something which would let me move the power key?  Nothing in the 02/01/2018 BIOS, I expect it would have to be at that level; I’ve added Home/End/Page up & down as ALT-arrow keys, but the power button seems like it would have to be outside the OS.

[Chupa]

it is the wrong overlay

get some keyboard stickers for a couple quids

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[bananas33]

Stickers was the plan before it arrived with the close but no cigar overlay, such a shame!  Maybe a few minutes with a craft knife and some glue…

[bananas33]

So with a bit of remapping every key on this overlay is now right except right Ctrl is Delete, the top row Fn alternatives are all wrong, and the Delete key booby trap remains the power button.  I can just slice the top row off and it will do the job nicely.

… And yet a nagging doubt remains that they can’t possibly have made this thing just to have it chopped up, and that immediately after I desecrate it the answer will turn up.  So I’ll bravely run away from the surgical solution, at least until I’ve fallen for the Delete key a few times.

[Chupa]

sounds like fun

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[bananas33]

Actually this rubber thing is a bit rubbish so I think I’ll give stickers a whirl.  One problem it seems I’m going to have is the #/~ key, there doesn’t seem to be an option for that.  The overlay has \ and | on the Z and X keys respectively which I’ve stuck with, but it seems more sensible to stick with the key actually marked with that for US layout.  What has anyone else done for #/~?

[Chupa]

when I Spaniardized my US keyboard via stickers, I used only the ones who made sense, had to cut the number stickers so they would not  block the blue  numb pad numbers.

for everything else, like getting real mouse click buttons, I used AHK

Take a look at my help section it should be under the main diary

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