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
1. what button do i press to change layers? 2. how do i save a layer ( i want to use the colemak layout http://colemak.com/Learn ) 3. how do i load that saved layers into the ergodox?
Thanks in advance. I have been looking thru the literature for about 2 hours. I have the http://configurator.input.club/ up but cant figure out how to save a layer. plus https://keyboard-configurator.massdrop.com/ext/ergodox#tab-discussion but cant figure out out how to make keys like 'lock-2'
At this point you should have one half flashed with the config you made. For ease of use you should perform the same steps for the other half starting from pressing the flash button, although you don't need to run Zadig again since the driver stays installed. This way no matter which half is plugged into the computer the keymap is the same.
As far as keys like "lock-2" it's fairly simple, you click the appropriate key on the layer you want and then you click the "LOCK-2" button below the keymap. There are a few ways to get into layers, you can LOCK-# to add that layer to the stack. LOCKing the same number will remove that layer, if it is the current layer in the stack. LATCH-# causes the layer to become active for one keypress and then the layer will pop off the stack. ƒ# makes the layer number active only while the key is held
If you haven't drilled a hole for the reset button, and you had to take the case apart to be able to hit the flash button, I strongly recommend you make a FLASH button accessible, ideally each half can get to flash mode by itself. You will want to set it behind a layer or two to ensure you can't accidentally put the keyboard into DFU mode.
You're right: the ergodox doesnt come with holes to access it, you have to unscrew everything to be able to press those buttons.