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
Aside from this defect, this keyboard is excellent. Looks and feels incredible and sturdy. My first mech with an aluminium case and I've gotta say, it's beautiful ;_;
And now I'll leave you with my attempts to type a tilde, ````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````(please help)`````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
I have the same keyboard.
I just hold the left Shift key down and then hit "esc". Works every time. Please note that I'm using this keyboard with OS X Sierra v 10.12.4 , but that shouldn't theoretically matter.
Shitft+Esc gives you ` Fn+Esc gives you ` Shift+Fn+Esc does nothing
Hugely disappointing to spend this kind of money on a board I can't even use for work.
If you have functions enabled shift + ESC will result in ~
You can toggle between the two function rows with function + pageup / pagedown
I have toggled my num row into fn and I still can't tilde.
Sorry to hear about the tilde on your va68m; we would love to get some replacements for you guys. If you have not done so, please reach out to support through your transaction page~
@niftypixels
Sorry to hear, good luck