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
I've seen various explanations of this issue -- the one that I believe is that the firmware gets confused about where the center is, and you have to let go of it so that it can re-center correctly. However I don't fully understand how this explains my problem, which comes in spates, three or four times in a given minute, then it works fine for several minutes.
Anyway, I wonder if just replacing the trackpoint module might be my best best.
By the way I am using the keyboard with Linux Mint, and found this setting to reduce the sensitivity -- it was close to ideal with this setting until the drift problem got so bad.
$ xinput --set-prop "SONiX USB Device" "Device Accel Constant Deceleration" 3.5