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I have changed my HUD trigger to ctrl just to try how it would act. I can
say after an hour of heavy text-editing HUD activated about 50 times from
which about 2 was intentional. I think it pretty much gets in the way
rather than help with ctrl.

2012/4/14 Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx>

> On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad <
> joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Den 14. april 2012 20:25, skrev Josh Strawbridge:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> i use my little/small/pinkie finger to hit ctrl.  i find it much more
>>> comfortable than hitting alt with my thumb. i've never found alt to be a
>>> comfortable reach.
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>> I tried to understand how that's possible, but it's a little bit
>> difficult. When I have my hands in the resting position, my left thumb is
>> about one inch from the left alt-key. I would've preferred it to be a
>> little to the right, at the cost of a slightly smaller space bar, but it's
>> still easily accessible to me. At the very least, it's much more
>> comfortable than the Ctrl-key, which requires me to lift my arm or twist my
>> hand.
>>
>> Do you have a weird keyboard, or do you have weird hands? :)
>>
>
> Whatever he has, I have it too :)
>
> With my hands in resting position, Alt is just to the left of where my
> thumb naturally rests on the spacebar. Super (AKA 'Windows') is just to the
> left of that, and Ctrl is just to the left of that. Ctrl, Super and Alt are
> all approximately the same size. With my hands in resting position, my left
> pinkie rests on the 'A' key. If I move it down a fraction of an inch, it's
> on left-shift, and if I move it down another fraction of an inch it's on
> the left Ctrl key. Both are comfortable movements. This is on a 'pure'
> american-english keyboard - does yours have some extra keys for Norwegian
> that change the layout?
>
> Evan
>
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