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Title: Towards an Ideal GNU Linux / Xorg HHKB Keyboard Layout
Post by: bloom on Mon, 13 June 2011, 03:18:11

(http://f.cl.ly/items/2Y2J1q2c0d313B3g2I1A/dream_layout.png)


All the modifiers placed on 'occupied' keys have a dual role behavior.
I think I found the right tool for the task :
http://gitorious.org/at-home-modifier/pages/Home

Title: Towards an Ideal GNU Linux / Xorg HHKB Keyboard Layout
Post by: xwhatsit on Tue, 14 June 2011, 03:16:19

Jesus you must be some kind of emacs user with all of those meta keys. Haven't heard of modal interfaces yet? Reminds me of the space cadet LISP board.

Title: Towards an Ideal GNU Linux / Xorg HHKB Keyboard Layout
Post by: bloom on Tue, 14 June 2011, 15:00:34

Quote from: xwhatsit;360493

Jesus you must be some kind of emacs user with all of those meta keys.

vim actually.
And soon PicoLisp !

Title: Towards an Ideal GNU Linux / Xorg HHKB Keyboard Layout
Post by: 7bit on Tue, 14 June 2011, 16:56:52

Quote from: bloom;359827

Show Image

(http://f.cl.ly/items/2Y2J1q2c0d313B3g2I1A/dream_layout.png)

...

^^^
Do you use Tab, \| and Return as modifier keys?

Title: Towards an Ideal GNU Linux / Xorg HHKB Keyboard Layout
Post by: bloom on Wed, 15 June 2011, 12:50:37

Quote from: 7bit;360781

Do you use Tab, \| and Return as modifier keys?

At least I'm planning to.
On the HHKB, the Delete key is just above Return.

Title: Towards an Ideal GNU Linux / Xorg HHKB Keyboard Layout
Post by: Superfluous Parentheses on Sat, 18 June 2011, 07:19:55

I prefer to use a close-to-standard layout because I switch between Linux/Xorg and Mac OSX and I wanted to have equivalent Emacs bindings on both; right now I've got:

Linux:

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CTRL
SHIFT                             SHIFT | FN
META (alt) | FN | SPACE | SUPER | COMPOSE (alt-gr)


I use SUPER for all my window-manager key bindings, so they don't interfere with any standard bindings for applications.

And on OSX, SUPER = CMD and COMPOSE/META = alt (I still don't understand why OSX doesn't support a compose key).