Re: Copy from emacs to Ubuntu clipboard

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 15.12.2008 um 14:55 schrieb Jason Rumney:

> > Look on elder Sun keyboards, Type 3 and Type 4! On the left side were
> > extra-keys titled Copy and Paste.
>
> Past tense? You mean Sun stopped making keyboards with the extra
> function keys down the left hand side? The last one I saw was a USB
> keyboard, so I assumed they were here to stay.


OK, Sun Type 5 keyboards had still the left extra columns, and were  
still not USB (Mini-DIN connector, like PS/2 mice and other  
keyboards). I did not like them because of their design, piece taken  
from a cylinder, by which the function keys were very high and showed  
kind of a steep rise. And the mouse still was connected to the  
keyboard. So only one cable stuck in the Sun. I think the Type 5c  
keyboard had an improved usability.

The Type 6 keyboard was more useful then the Type 5. It definitely  
had a mechanical mouse. Again the mouse was connected to the  
keyboard, which had a Mini-DIN connector. This keyboard has some  
extra "multi-media" keys in continuation of the usual function keys  
row. It was later converted to become an USB keyboard – if it hasn't  
been this from the start! For PC keyboards adapters existed from Mini- 
DIN to USB, so presumingly all keyboards manufactured during the last  
five or six years are USB under the hood. I wonder whether such an  
USB keyboard also stops the Sun when being detached ... (Mini-DIN  
connectors can toggle miniature switches built into the receptacle.)

The recent Type 7 keyboard I only know from having it seen once or  
twice. It has a more PC keyboard like look, I don't remember whether  
it has the two separated extra columns on the left. I do remember a  
particular key by which the Sun can be put to sleep. And make it  
awake, too.


I'm a bit biased to the Type 4 keyboards. They worked better!

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