Kinesis Advantage: mapping the Macintosh Power key

TL;DR

Press = and Scroll Lock together while in a pc master mode to make Scroll Lock the Macintosh Power Key.

Motivation

I normally use non-windows pc mode (=p) for my kinesis. Now that I'm on a mac I need a Command key, so I switched to windows pc mode. Windows pc mode only changes one thumb key relative to non-pc mode, the right alt becomes a Command/Windows key. Mac mode remaps all the alt and control locations and produces two Command/Windows keys.

I rarely need the power button, so I hadn't bothered to figure this out. But now I want to be able to suspend/power my laptop without opening it and waiting on graphic layout as the system switches to multi-monitor mode.

How-to

It's a simple matter to pull the Power Key binding from mac (=m) mode into any of the other modes. Press = "Scroll Lock" to copy the binding from default into current. The tricky part was finding the original binding.

• Kinesis advantage supports three master settings: macintosh (=m), non-windows pc(=p) and windows pc(=w).
• macintosh mode (= m) is the default mode.
• macintosh mode maps Scroll Lock to Power Key
• Any key that is mapped by a master setting can be individually remapped using the = key in the number row (top left, above Tab).

Windows PC layout:

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