Posted by electrosteam on
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Mouse-on-LHS-ESC-Key-tp5715482.html

I am right-handed.

But, many years ago I realised that doing ordinary office tasks at a work-station meant that I was repeatedly exchanging mouse for pen in the right hand.
One day, I simply picked up the mouse and positioned it on the LHS, and trained myself to use the mouse in that position.
It is now my normal arrangement.

Note that the mouse is a standard RH one, it does not have the buttons swapped.
But, most importantly, the buttons span all the way to the sides so that a tennis-racket grip allows comfortable operation of the buttons - try it, it really does work better.

I enjoyed the look of exasperation on the face of the IT people whenever they attended to duties at my work-station !

Now, however, I am working at a disability in that the ESC key is poorly positioned for LibreCad tasks.

What I would like to do is assign the top right hand key on my keypad as the ESC key.
The key at this location appears to be different on every keyboard I examine.
On my 2002 build Dell laptop the key has a symbol that looks like text in a box with an arrow pointing to the text.
Testing the button in various applications seems to show it as initiating a drop-down dialog box, in Firefox it duplicates the Edit dialog box.

So, do any other users arrange their work area anything like this ?
Have others re-allocated a key to fulfil the duties of the ESC key ?
Are their better alternatives for ESC ?

John.