Logitech Keyboards (and other non-Apple keyboards) on OS X

When you use a 3rd party keyboard with OS X you are often stuck with the standard mapping that maps the “Start” key to “Command” and the “Alt” key to “Alt/Option.” This might be fine for you but it annoyed the crap out of me because the “Command” key is no longer next to the space bar! So I tried to install Logitech Control Center 3.2 to correct this but it screwed up my keyboard and made me double type everything (to uninstall this goto Applications > Utilities > LCC Uninstaller, or something like that). I installed Logitech Control Center 3.1 and my keyboard worked but then my mouse was screwed up as if it were permanently clicking everything. I tried so many different things to try to effectively swap the keys and none of the worked (on Snow Leopard) until i found DoubleCommand (http://doublecommand.sourceforge.net/). Here you just install this and go to your System Preferences and check the “Command Key acts as Option” and “Option acts like Command Key” and you are done!

Thank you DoubleCommand!

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