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
EDIT: R2 HOME keycap is also not standard - I missed it at first.
I've edited my pictures and text above. I'm very sorry for my mistake. And I should add that this ALT keyboard is fully programmable, so you can change any key to whatever you want.
Cyberdeck kit comes with literally 21 navigation keycaps in various row variations that can be assigned to the navigation cluster of the ALT. Unfortunately none of the combinations is exactly what you see in the vanilla ALT but lets be honest?
It’s absolutely possible for anyone to find not only a compatible keymap but one that makes sense for him/her specifically, given the options provided with ALT barebones + Cyberdeck.
My apologies for the lack of a HOME R2 in the Cyberdeck kit, I will try to do better planning next time so this won’t occur again. Hope you understtand!