Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 5th Jul 2012 22:27 UTC, submitted by Piet Simons
Interesting charts by Horace Dediu: "As a result the Mac began to whittle down the advantage Windows had. The ratio of Windows to Mac units shipped fell to below 20, a level that was last reached before Windows 95 launched. It's as if the Mac reversed the Windows advantage. This was an amazing turnaround for the Mac. But the story does not end there." Too bad Dediu didn't include Android devices in his charts. The picture would change dramatically, and would downplay the important of either Windows or Mac/iOS. We're in a three-horse race - not the two-horse race Dediu paints.
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RE[5]: Comment by shmerl
by ssokolow on Fri 6th Jul 2012 03:00
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The 18 gkeys are more problematic than the old 6 gkeys. I have both and only the 6 gkeys work fine (the 18 one is the newer g510, but it is the same gardware as the last g15, just rebranded and with a scrollwheel built in)
No, actually. The G15 originally had 18 G keys and a blue backlight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Logitech_Gaming-Keyboard_G15.jpg
Then they pared it down for the second-generation G15, which has 6 G keys.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Logitech_G15v2.png
I didn't know they'd re-created the original G15 with the new non-hinged LCD and restyled multimedia keys under the name G510.
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/keyboards/keyboards/gaming-keyboard-g...
I have the very first kind, for which G15Daemon was originally written.
Edited 2012-07-06 03:00 UTC
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Yeah, as I said, I was able to get the screen working using G15Daemon... that wasn't a problem...
It was ages ago when I tried to get he G-Keys to work... who knows what I tried... Maybe it's worth another go...
My point was, wouldn't it be good if Logitech became more involved and made it more seamless... such as giving us the same GUI to assign keys etc that MS users get...
This is the kind of thing I am hoping would happen as a result of more mainstream games being ported to Linux. Steam would be a massive help.
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Hopefully it improves drivers across the board.
It has the potential to get these big companies involved in the entire linux stack...
Strange. I have one of those and, given that the LCD needs G15Daemon as far as I know, it should work for you. Didn't give me any problems.
Did you make sure your kernel has uinput either built-in or loaded as a module? (That's how G15Daemon remaps the weird hardware keycodes from the three USB HID devices exported by the keyboard to something sane)
Did you set up Xmodmap using the provided config to assign X11 key symbols to the G keys? As I remember, the keycodes G15Daemon emits don't map to any by default.
Edited 2012-07-06 01:23 UTC