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
" COMPATIBILITY: Adesso: MKB-135B Cooler Master: Quickfire Pro, Quickfire Rapid, Quickfire Stealth, Trigger, Quickfire XT, Quickfire TK, Quickfire Ultimate Corsair: K60, K90, K65, K70, K70 RGB, K95, STRAFE RGB Das Keyboard: Model S Ultimate Ducky Channel: Zero Series, G2Pro Series, Shine Series Filco: Ninja Majestouch-2 Gigabyte: Osmium Aivia (spacebar not compatible) iOne: Scorpius M10 KBTalking: KBtalKingPro_limited Keycool: K-10 Series/Full Size/Partial Backlit, KL-5 Series (TKL) Backlit, K-5 Series (TKL) Non Backlit Leopold: FC200, FC500 (spacebar might not compatible) Logitech: G710+ MAX: Nighthawk X7, X8, X9 Mionix: Zibal 60 Monoprice: 9180, 9181, 9433 MSI: GK-601, CK Series QPAD: MK-50, MK-80, MK-85 Razer: Blackwidow, Blackwidow Ultimate, Blackwidow Tournament Rosewill: RK9000, RK9100 Steelseries: 6GV2, 7G Tesoro: Durandal G1N, G1NL, G3NL Thermaltake: Meka G1 Vortex: PFCN6800 WASD: V1, V2 XArmor: U9BL, U9BL-S, U9, U9PLUS, U9W "
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