Support for Alternative Layouts
This is a summary of how alternative layouts have been supported by kits such as Colevrak and Homing. It is not a discussion of alt layout performance and development, but if that interests you I highly recommend starting with Pascal Getreuer’s A guide to alt keyboard layouts (why, how, which one?). It’s a concise and comprehensive overview with links to some great sites that go deeper. He also has a separate Links about keyboards page. The Keyboard layouts doc he recommends explains layout goals and metrics in detail, summarizing the alt layouts discussed here as well as more than one hundred others. Sculpted-profile The majority of custom keycap sets are sculpted-profile (Cherry, SA, MT3, KAT, etc. - more on profiles generally here) so let’s start there. Because each row has a unique keycap shape, alt layouts require a unique keycap for each legend that moves off its QWERTY row. At first there were two The Dvorak layout was patented in 1936 by August Dvorak & William L....
Apr 23, 2024
Hooking this keyboard into the system, it works great with 3 of the 4 computers. However, it will not sync up with my main desktop computer. I tried rebooting the computer, I turned off all the machines, etc, in an attempt to reset everything ... Still no luck. By contrast, plugged my logitech lighted keyboard in, and it worked, no problem.
Update: Hooked this keyboard directly to the computer (ASUS Motherboard, Windows 10) via a USB port on the Motherboard. Still does not work!! Does not even register as a USB Device.
Would love to hear comments from anyone with a similar issue.
I appreciate your pointer to this video .. and it works on Windows 10.0, sort of ...
I ran all the steps as the video suggests, and sure enough the keyboards works. However, only while connected to the PC.
In my case I have a KVM switch, and when I switch away, and come back to the original PC that had the problem, the keyboard is now not working again. A check into the device manager shows that the HID Composite Device driver that we replaced, is not there, and the ND-Detect device is back again .. and of course the keyboard does not work.
Based on this .. I am not real sure the fix in the video would work across a reboot of the PC.
There may be some pecuiliarities of Windows 10 affecting this .. but since Microsoft is pushing everyone to go to Windows 10, this is quite concerning, with respect to this keyboard. I think the manufacturer is going to need to consider publishing a driver to go with their keyboard...