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
Thanks for your help.
I just tested my board (mine's from the last drop) on my colleague's iMac running Yosemite, and it worked fine. Winkey maps to command, and the volume keys work. When I plugged it in, OSX did not recognize the board, but once I went through the keyboard recognition process there was no problem.
It means a lot you taking the time to experiment with the keyboard to ensure quality OS X compatibility with the board. Myself, and other OS X/mech keyboard enthusiasts appreciate it greatly!
Thanks!