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Title: Key remapping - Is hardware modding required?
Post by: shaippen on Tue, 19 July 2011, 09:10:28

I recently ordered a Filco Majestouch-2 Cherry MX brown tenkeyless and I would like to add shortcuts to multimedia keys similar to the steelseries 6gv2.
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Basically i would like to completely deactivate the normal function of left win key (just to avoid misclicks while gaming) and add simple multimedia functions to [left win key] + [Fx]

It seemed to me to be a quite simple thing to do with a random free remapping software but of the ones I've tried none supported remapping of the win keys and ability to add multimedia shortcuts. I couldn't find any software capable of deactivating the standard function of a key either.
Furthermore no program I found had working shortcuts while in a game.

Is it possible to do this using only software or do I need to do something like this: http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:14618 (http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:14618)




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Title: Key remapping - Is hardware modding required?
Post by: pyro on Tue, 19 July 2011, 10:42:01

Have you tried Autohotkey? You could do something like

LWin::return
LWin & F2::Send {Volume_Mute}

to deactivate LWin, when pressed alone, but use it as a modifier key to mute the volume. (note that all other win-key combos will still work)

Title: Key remapping - Is hardware modding required?
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Tue, 19 July 2011, 15:07:54

I'm not aware of any software solutions that would allow you to emulate a fn key for 2nd layer options for media keys. For that you would need a hardware solution I think. If you don't use particular fkeys for anything in daily use, you could just remap them to mediakeys outright.
Autohotkey is best option for creating media key macros, but it often doesn't work in games. For the L winkey, what I used to do is start with US intl keymap, and set L winkey to deadkey. You can also remap it to nothing via registy by setting it to scancode 00_00.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout]
"Scancode Map"=hex:00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,02,00,00,00,5b,e0,00,00,00,00,00,00

Title: Key remapping - Is hardware modding required?
Post by: shaippen on Wed, 20 July 2011, 03:38:19

Thank you for replies!
I managed to do what i wanted with autohotkey, it doesn't work in games, but it's not really important enough to warrant any hardware modding on a brand new Filco.

Title: Key remapping - Is hardware modding required?
Post by: Minskleip on Wed, 20 July 2011, 05:03:00

Make a PS/2 -> USB adapter with a Teensy and remap till your heart's content!

Title: Key remapping - Is hardware modding required?
Post by: shaippen on Wed, 20 July 2011, 05:45:42

Is it possible to completely hide a teensy inside a filco tenkeyless? Do you need to do something creative?

Title: Key remapping - Is hardware modding required?
Post by: Minskleip on Wed, 20 July 2011, 06:10:29

I don't have a Filco so I can't answer that, but if you build a little box for it you escape hardware modification and it can be used with other keyboards as well.

Title: Key remapping - Is hardware modding required?
Post by: alaricljs on Wed, 20 July 2011, 07:14:29

A teensy can fit in a Filco, you'll have to figure out what to do for cable connections tho if you don't want to cut the Filco cable.  A teensy++ will fit with modifications.

Title: Key remapping - Is hardware modding required?
Post by: Input Nirvana on Thu, 21 July 2011, 16:50:46

We are in the process of making something that will do all that and more:

http://geekhack.org/showthread.php?19458-QWERTY-to-Colemak-via-hardware.-USB-key-or-built-in-hardware-firmware

Join in and offer suggestions/wish list.

And it's linked in my sig :)