Keyboard and Keyboard + Mice Combos with Mac (READ ONLY ARCHIVE)

[hiten]

Hello

I just bought a new Number Pad N305. But unlike a regular number pad on a keyboard, I can't get it to perform the alternate functions (ones with the num lock key in "off" mode). i.e I can not use the 8,4,6,2 as arrow keys and 7,9,1,3 as home, page up, end, page down keys etc...

Is there some setting that I can change to make it work like a regular number pad of the key board (and not force the num lock status to on before every keystroke)?

Thanks in advance for any help / suggestions....

Hiten

[schalliol]

There's now a way to make this work on Macs, please see pos 5 on this thread.

[benwalt]

Since there hasn't been a reply to this message in so long, I'm guessing logitech hasn't implemented a way to turn off numlock.  Similar to the mac workaround, you can deal with this on the pc by remapping keys.

For example using autohotkey, the following script will take care of the remapping.

Numpad0:end {NumpadIns}
Numpad1:end {NumpadEnd}
Numpad2:end {NumpadDown}
Numpad3:end {NumpadPgDn}
Numpad4:end {NumpadLeft}
Numpad5:end {NumpadClear}
Numpad6:end {NUmpadRight}
Numpad7:end {NumpadHome}
Numpad8:end {NumpadUp}
Numpad9:end {NumpadPgUp}
NumpadDot:end {NumpadDel}

This seems like a bit overkill, though: If someone has a better solution, I'd like to hear it, too.

 Hope this helps,

 Ben