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
Meanwhile if anyone wants to try my custom layout, the mapping can be found here: https://github.com/irae/tmk_keyboard/blob/master/keyboard/s60-x/keymap_mac_pok3r.c And precompiled version here: https://github.com/irae/tmk_keyboard/raw/master/keyboard/s60-x/S60-X_pre-compiled.mac_pok3r.zip
It is almost as the original Pok3r layout, except (original → replacement): * R_CTRL → Fn * CAPS_LOCK → CONTROL * Fn + BACKSLASH → CAPS_LOCK * Pn → Eject
Now Eject also works, and it is one of the major reasons I bought the custom chipset in the first place. Now I can sleep the monitor with Control+Shift+Eject again! Handy for busy offices or for the computer on my living room, which I can't enable hot corners since I also play games on it 😜
Edit: Forgot the Pull Request link for reference: https://github.com/VinnyCordeiro/tmk_keyboard/pull/1 Edit2: Fix precompiled firmware link. Edit3: http://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/#/gists/93dd9bd80a70823df298