w00t! I'm getting excited. My one goldtouch is getting kinda rough and needs to be bumped from the daily driver position. How exactly do the two pieces connect together again? I thought I saw USB at one point but then I thought I read something else. Are we going to be able to use a longer cable so we can further split the board halves?
The two sides connect with a male-to-male TRRS cable, which is the same plug used by the earbuds that come with all the smartphones these days. Extension cables are available in various lengths.
I'd love to have one of these keyboard. For $200 I can have a preassembled keyboard with wrist rest, keycaps and tent feet included. Pretty sweet.
The only problem I have is I've only use MX Brown and their lightness is perfect for me. I'm not sure if I'll like the stiffer Matias Quiet switches or not.
Actually, Quiet Click switches are not as heavy as you might think. They're tactile, so the peak force falls rapidly after actuation.
In contrast, Cherry switches are a simple linear spring design, so their peak force has to be lower (since there's no fall off -- the opposite, in fact). It's a limitation of the Cherry design.
The undo/cut/copy/paste keys generate the appropriate key combo's for Windows or Mac.
Does this mean that I won't be able to use it in Emacs? There is apparently a keysym in X11 (i.e. something you can map a scancode to) called "copy" which Emacs helpfully tells me to use in the future every time I manually run the clipboard-kill-ring-save command � I was hoping I could bind this copy key to that.
If it just sends ctrl+x, that's totally useless: 1) that key combination means something completely different in Emacs; and 2) I already have the ctrl and x keys for that.
Yes, it sends Ctrl-X or Command-X etc. for PC vs. Mac.
The macro keys are there primarily for users who don't use (or are not aware of) the normal keyboard shortcuts. In Emacs they (unfortunately) will not be of much use to you.