[ubuntu-uk] Mac Frustration (was Remote support was Sad but true? etc.)

Sean Miller sean at seanmiller.net
Sun Jan 18 16:12:08 GMT 2009


On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 1:23 PM, William Anderson <neuro at well.com> wrote:
> Hang on, what do you mean, no Ctrl key?  I'm looking at the MacBook Pro
> keyboard I'm typing on right now, and there it is, a Ctrl key nestling
> between Fn and Option/Alt.  This and the "there's no right mouse
> button"[1] fallacy really irritate me sometimes.

Okay, so there's a Ctrl key.  But it doesn't do what the control key
would normally do, that appears to be the job of the "Apple" key.

So what precisely does the "Ctrl" key do on a Mac?

Sean



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