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After 6 years of daily use, my Redox keyboard died on me. I originally thought of getting a new Redox, maybe the wireless version. I eventually decided to get a ZSA Voyager. It had good reviews, and less keys. After a few years of tweaking my Redox layout, I wasn’t using its top row anymore.

I went with Kailh Choc Brown switches. Although I wasn’t 100% sure it’d be the right choice, Voyager switches are easily swappable so I figured I could always change it later. It turned out to be the tactile switches I needed. I may still change some of the switches for my mod keys, but that can wait.

ZSA’s support was stellar. Responsive, helpful, attentive, no predefined replies. It was one of the best customer experiences I’ve experienced in the past few years. On top of that, they really nailed the onboarding experience. I received multiple emails in the days after my order. These emails helped me get ready to switch to the new keyboard. They familiarized me with its options and answered any questions I had before I even thought to ask them.

Here is my new layout (you can also view it in the Oryx keyboard configurator tool):

I originally tried to use the home row a lot more, but it wasn’t working well for me. I would constantly miss key taps or mods because of a too quick keypress. The end result is quite standard, and I think it works well.

As you can see on the heatmap above, my home row sees quite a lot of use! The Colemak layout helps a lot with this, and I placed all symbols on the home row in my second layer:

Combining Cmd and the backspace key also proved to be a good idea 🙂

If you have any tips on how I could improve that layout further, do not hesitate to let me know! I’m still not entirely happy with my ( [ { } ] ) placement, but I haven’t found a better way to quickly access those yet.

Hello,

(feel free to reply here or on https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/streamlined-unified-user-experience-with-keyboard-shortcuts.97909/ )

As a long-time Mac user I have strong habits with a bunch of keyboard shortcuts. My new FreeBSD system is quite powerful and the XFCE desktop I’ve setup has started growing on me, even though macOS is my daily driver.

I’m using a Keychron Q11, BÉPO layout (https://www.patpro.net/cafesale/bepo2025.jpg) with some custom key bindings programmed in the keyboard firmware (VIA):
- the "print" key is mapped to a macOS "screen shot region" shortcut (super-shift-4)
- left knob is mapped to macOS combos to zoom out / zoom in / reset zoom
- right knob is mapped to generic (?) combos to Vol up / Vol down / Mute

I’m also relying on a second keyboard layer: pressing left or right "Fn" key activate the second layer that gives me access to a pseudo-numpad and media keys (https://www.patpro.net/cafesale/2layer2025.jpg).

XFCE customisation is still a work in progress but I’ve managed to setup some keyboard shortcuts like using the print key (super-shift-4) to trigger xfce-screenshooter -r. Works great.

Unfortunately I’m unable to create keyboard shortcuts that use the second layer: pressing "Fn" + "F8" should be recognised as Play/Stop, "Fn" + "F9" as Next, etc. but it looks like it’s not detected at all. I’ve used xev without success so far. It’s like the second layer is not here.
So my questions are:
- if I can make those media keys work (with your help), will they work in all apps (fooyin, firefox, VLC…) or will I face a YMMV situation depending on developers’ choices?
- how can I dig deeper to analyse and solve that problem?

Thank you!

#FreeBSD #XFCE4 #keyboard #shortcut

The FreeBSD ForumsXfce - streamlined/unified user experience with keyboard shortcutsHello, As a long-time Mac user I have strong habits with a bunch of keyboard shortcuts. My new FreeBSD system is quite powerful and the XFCE desktop I’ve setup has started growing on me, even though macOS is my daily driver. I’m using a Keychron Q11, BÉPO layout...

I’ve been spending some time on the MechanicalKeyboards subreddit lately, and it never stops to surprise me to see keyboard nerds designing beautiful custom keyboards by themselves… And making them ortholinear instead of matrix.
One of them had the tagline “By Design — not Default”, even if there is nothing made more by default than ortholinear keyboards.

For Android users, you might want to test the Futo keyboard. Its nice to set up and use, and is very privacy focused. Good keyboards are hard to find in Android (imo), and Im very keen to dump Swiftkey asap. You can download Futo from Fdroid too.

#android #swiftkey #fdroid #privacy #data #FUTO #keyboard

keyboard.futo.org/

keyboard.futo.orgFUTO KeyboardFUTO Keyboard is a modern, privacy-focused keyboard that runs fully offline. Enjoy swipe typing, autocorrect, predictive text, and more—no internet connection required.

SSS 🐂 (The Supreme Sexp System) proudly announces version v2.3.23 of the project:

codeberg.org/jjba23/sss

It brings stability fixes and small improvements, to #hyprland and #labwc configurations, as well as the ability to turn #emacs #lisp #keyboard #macros into clean persistent code that can be bound to keys.

SSS is a Lisp machine adventure with #gnu #linux #guix where #hacking culture is celebrated.

Can you get enough Emacs really ?

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@governa I really wish someone would implement an inline USB #FOSS device that allows any keyboard to become "programmable" with no software on the host device.

I believe a #RaspberryPi 4 or Zero can function as an HID device, I just don't have the dev capability to implement.

A hardware-only solution is portable between computers, allows use of any #keyboard, and can be programmed on the fly using keyboard shortcuts, like the old Gateway Anykey keyboards. Bonus for enabling profiles & macros.