As I mentioned before, I now use a Mac at work and PC everywhere else, which has become a source of much frustration… now I am dysfunctional with the shortcut keys on both systems. I am sure that the key mappings defined for the Mac have been ergonomically proven in test labs, blessed by yogis and spat on by saki-drinking blind virgin Okinawans nuns, but I have used a PC keyboard for years and they don’t feel right to me… so I changed them on the Mac.

It was actually very easy. Go into the System Settings for Keyboard & Mouse, then click on the “Modifier Keys…” button. Now you can change the modifier keys to map to whichever function you want. Here is what I did:

Basically, turned off the Caps Lock, mapped the Ctrl key to the Command function, Alt/Option key to the Control function, and the Command key to the Alt/Option function.

So far so, good… my fingers are happier and feeling more productive already.