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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: spdx on Fri, 09 September 2011, 16:10:17

Title: What's the ideal keyboard layout for you?
Post by: spdx on Fri, 09 September 2011, 16:10:17

There many interesting keyboard layouts out there but none of them is ideal for me.

MY close-to-ideal keyboard layout is between a 87-TKL and a KBC poker. Like a TKL without function keys rows, which can be merged into number/symbol rows with an FN key:

ESC --> ~`               as KBC poker but with ESC enabled in initial state.
F1-F12 --> 1..0,-,=
PrcSc/ScrLk/Pause --> Insert/Home/PageUp

What does your ideal keyboard layout look like?

Title: What's the ideal keyboard layout for you?
Post by: Oqsy on Fri, 09 September 2011, 16:16:56

101 key ANSI

Title: What's the ideal keyboard layout for you?
Post by: HairyTroll on Fri, 09 September 2011, 16:21:03

HHKB Pro 2, but with the addition of the inverted T cursor keys.

Title: What's the ideal keyboard layout for you?
Post by: Daniel Beaver on Fri, 09 September 2011, 16:31:17

My modified Model F AT layout (http://www.danielbeaver.net/storage/projects/keyboards/model-f-spacebar-mod/25092010837.jpg) was basically ideal in my mind. The only thing missing was the F11 and F12 keys, which are annoyingly placed on the far right side of the keyboard.

Title: What's the ideal keyboard layout for you?
Post by: pyro on Fri, 09 September 2011, 19:33:15

Dvorak and HHKB layout as a base. Capslock as Backspace, Tab and / as Shift Keys, and Escape as Numpad-modkey (including an extra modkey for the Shift-layer for $%^ etc) modded in.

(Tab, /, and Escape send their original keycodes when pressed alone or with other modkeys.)