Getting a cmd key on an external 101-key keyboard

I'd like to use my classic IBM Model M keyboard with my new MacBook Pro. I've connected the keyboard into the MacBook Pro via a PS/2-USB adapter and am able to type fine and enjoy all of its old-style clicky, mechanical key goodness.

The problem is, however, that there is no cmd/flower/Apple key on an old 101-key keyboard -- and this key comes often comes in handy in OSX.

Is there any way to simulate the cmd key in OSX? Or can I perhaps reassign another key to work as the cmd key? I do have at the top of the keyboard "Print Screen", "Scroll Lock", and "Pause" keys, which according to keyboard viewer, work as F13, F14, and F15. F14 and F15 work as screen brightness up and down and F13 has no function. Could I perhaps assign one of these keys to work as the cmd key?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Sep 19, 2007 10:39 AM

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Sep 24, 2007 12:16 PM in response to J. Everett

J. Everett wrote:
*Modifier Keys* will indeed allow me to assign the Caps Lock, Control, or Option/Alt key to be the Cmd key -- but then I'm out either a Caps Lock, Control, or Option/Alt key.


Well, I decided I can live without a "Caps Lock" key better than I can live without a "Cmd" key, so I swapped away my "Caps Lock" for "Cmd" in "Modifier Keys".

It's functional for all the cmd-key combinations, but alas, it does make it HARDER TO SHOUT LIKE A N00B ON MESSAGE BOARDS. 😉

Sep 19, 2007 11:11 AM in response to alatryste

*Modifier Keys* will indeed allow me to assign the Caps Lock, Control, or Option/Alt key to be the Cmd key -- but then I'm out either a Caps Lock, Control, or Option/Alt key. I'd imagine that function is designed for people who want to SWITCH key assignments, not make up for a missing key.

*Keyboard Shortcuts* seems to be a way to assign to a keyboard shortcut a particular +menu command+. Unless I'm missing something, it doesn't seem to be a way to assign one key (e.g. F13) to another key (e.g. Cmd).

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