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
Setup: Windows 10 desktop, generic Bluetooth USB dongle with Broadcom BCM20702 Bluetooth adapter
When I first received my keyboard the Bluetooth driver was version 12.0.1.750, released in September of 2015. Broadcom doesn't seem to provide drivers on its own page - Windows just updates them automatically. This is a very common adapter type, so I looked around and found a Lenovo driver for one of the company's laptops that uses the same adapter:
http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/ds039810
I downloaded the EXE and ran it, which manually installed an older version of the driver, 12.0.0.9050. Once that was installed, I could turn the keyboard off and on, and now it reconnects and types as it should.
I have no idea why this driver downgrade worked for me. I don't know if it will work for you. But if you're feeling frustrated after paying a lot of money and waiting a long time to get a premium keyboard that isn't working correctly, I think it's worth a shot.