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
If downloaded, then: - You can then head to the `complex-modifications` tab. - Click on `add rule` located at the bottom left of the screen and a modal box will pop up with `Import More rules from the Internet`. - Clicking on the `Import more rules...` button will open up a browser. - In the search bar enter: `New Poker II (Backtick, tilde & i/j/k/l as arrows)` - Import the settings; should prompt if you want to import into Karabiner-Elements - You can choose to enable individual rules (i.e.: `L_Shift + Esc to ~), or enable them all.
Should work automagically after that. There shouldn't be any need to reset, restart, etc. Hope this helps for the mac users.