Computer help needed!

[pebblerocker]

How can I disable the space bar behaving as a second "page down" key? It's the one key most likely to be lain on by a cat, and it's getting frustrating when I'm reading long pages. Leading experts (my personal geek) have tried and failed to answer this. It's built into Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari and Opera, so it seems there's no simple way of getting away from it.

Moving the cat off the desk has been tried repeatedly. Standing the keyboard up on its end beside the monitor is one solution, but rather inconvenient.

Comments

[jekesta]

I have no idea how you do that. It *must* be possible, it seems like such a necessary thing but all google finds is either people asking and other people going 'no you can't do that' or people solving it with difficult looking code that I didn't understand.

Maybe you can create some sort of spacebar GUARD thing out of cardboard, a sort of thing to go over it so it doesn't get pressed down.

[pebblerocker]

MaybeIshouldjustpullthespacebarkeyoffcompletely.

I like the spacebar guard idea. Hmm, how to implement it? Maybe I could stuff a strip of cardboard into the gap between the space bar and the edge of the keyboard, so she'll lean on that instead, and make little cutouts in the top edge where my thumbs go, so I can still press it.

[diatribein.livejournal.com]

Wow I didn't even know the space-bar scrolled until now!

My cat is more well behaved than your cat. She doesn't even jump on the computer desk, although she seems to jump everywhere else. There has got to be a way to block her from hitting it, I'm sure; or are you going to let a little kitty cat outsmart you? :P

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

Leave your arms resting on the desk in typing position... that way if she wants to lie between you and the keyboard, it'll have to be on your arms.

When I'm at my mom's place, Digger lies across my arms and puts his head on the CPU of the laptop, because it's warm.

[pebblerocker]

She doesn't do it when I'm chatting or typing, when my arms are in the way, only when I'm sitting back to read something with one hand over on the trackball for scrolling and navigating. I think the trick might be to make my lap extra-inviting.