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
Seems like I'm not the only one with this issue. This board should not be advertised as OSX compatible if it is not configurable - or at least have some sort of disclaimer re: needing 3rd party apps to fully configure.
**Update** By using both Karabiner and Seil I was able to get everything mapped how I want it. Here's how I remapped the keyboard to both match Apple's command/option orientation and to use Caps Lock as a Ctrl key:
Step 1. Swap apple internal keyboard option and command, go into Modifier Keys... prompt and swap Caps Lock to "No Action" Step 2. Remap L command to L option, same with R keys using Karabiner Step 3. Swap Caps Lock to keycode 59 (L Ctrl) using Seil
bam, perfectly functioning wireless mech kb on mac
From reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/3cug1a/my_varmilo_vb87m_was_delivered_from_massdrop_this/