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
Anyone know how to get out of this mode?
Edit: Found a manual for this model on TEX's Facebook page. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7TuRf3KQe7GdjJwNXMwdHZIUm8/edit. It looks like hitting that same key combo should disable the arrow key functionality, but that doesn't seem to be working in my case.
Edit #2: I found a solution - switching the first dip switch to the on position configures CapsLock to act as a FN key. Since the original FN key is overridden by the arrow key functionality, using the remapped capslock+enter allows you to turn off that mode. (I've left my keyboard set up this way since CapsLock is a function that will never get used for me.)
Still can't figure out how to get middle click to actually emit a middle click in windows either :(