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
- No instructions
- No idea how to flash or change layout. (the default layout has 2 z's next to each other and no backspace)
- Appears to have RGB underglow but no idea how to change color or if you can. See point 1
- Key caps are WAY to tight and the double space cap does not fit
- Under board supports are lacking especially in the upper right hand corner
- No hole for the reset button (no idea how or why I need this, see point 1)
There are probably more problems but all in all I feel I have wasted $100. This most likely will be the last Massdrop I will ever get.- unplug the keyboard
- press and hold the key on top left corner (where ESC usually is)
- plug your keyboard back (while still holding the key).
It should be ready for flashing. It worked for me with IDOBO keyboard, which is a clone of XD75, so I assume/hope it should be the same here.