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
When I turn on my PC with this keyboard plugged in, it hangs before the POST, and does so until I remove the keyboard. In BIOS I had my rig set up to boot from USB devices if available, but the problem persists even after I changed that boot priority.
There's more though: after I unplug the keyboard and thereby allow the machine to post and start to load Windows 10, I can plug it back in and freeze the Windows Login screen.
Booting my PC with no slowdown and loading Windows with my new keyboard working are now mutually exclusive. I've never experienced this on any computer or with any keyboard, ever. Only now with the K-Type; plugging in any other keyboard results in a normal experience through and through.
How do I get official support on this?