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
What I've tried so far:
- Auto Hot Key: It looks super powerful but I'm not a programmer and I keep hitting walls trying to use it, and I don't think I can use it to record macros
- AutoIt: Same issues as Auto Hot Key
- QMK: It seems way too complicated for what I can do
- QMK configurator: Can't do series of keypresses, or multiple keypresses (outside of a simple modifier + key), open folders, files, or programs, or record macros
- Macro Express: No global per macro hotkeys
- JitBit Macro Recorder: No global per macro hotkeys
- Pulover’s Macro Creator: frozen on the launch, that with multiple warning from windows about it being a fishy software made me unstinall it instantly.
I'm running out of things to try. Logitech's software can't be the only one out there, can it? Please help!