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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: Son of Gnome on Sun, 20 November 2011, 21:43:38
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Ok guys i got some new key caps but my function row is full and I am wondering where else can else they fit on a keyboard. Thanks!
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home/page up cluster. number row and i THINK arrow cluster.
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Esc F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 F10 F11 F12 Ps/SR ScLk Pa/Br
` 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 - = Ins Home PgUp NmLk / * -
All other keys are sculpted differently i.e different row height shape
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so they wont fit on the delete end and page down?
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so they wont fit on the delete end and page down?
Those are sculpted to match the q w e r t y u i o p [ ] row, sorry man. There are a total of 4 different row shapes for x1.0 keys
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They'll fit on any cherry MX switch. It's just a matter of whether or not you want the profile of all the keys in the row to match.
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They'll fit on any cherry MX switch. It's just a matter of whether or not you want the profile of all the keys in the row to match.
You are right I suppose I should have mentioned that. If you have keys that are non-sculpted i.e all of them have a matching profile, then you can place it anywhere. If you do have sculpted keys then here is your layout.
-keyboard row- -sculpted row-
row 1 and 2 = key shape row 1
row 3 = key shape row 2
row 4 = key shape row 3
row 5 and 6 = key shape row 4
the numbering starts from the bottom row (your space bar)
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k thanks :D
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I can definitely confirm this for Filco keycaps. Using the blank red ESC as my 6 key right now (aids in my finding my hands on the number row faster).
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Clearly the best place for an escape key is the [`~] key
My WYSE doubleshots have an ESC key that went there on the original keyboard, and I put it there on my current one, because the colour theme matched. It's still mapped to [`~] though :p Since it's QWERTY, I almost never use it.
I put my (cherry profile?) shamrock keycap on my [Delete] key for colour-reasons, and because the profile matches the rest of the keys in that area better.
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Clearly the best place for an escape key is the [`~] key
My WYSE doubleshots have an ESC key that went there on the original keyboard, and I put it there on my current one, because the colour theme matched. It's still mapped to [`~] though :p Since it's QWERTY, I almost never use it.
I put my (cherry profile?) shamrock keycap on my [Delete] key for colour-reasons, and because the profile matches the rest of the keys in that area better.
Wow I just now realized that the shamrock keycap is row 3 keycap.. the more you know. But the thread said it was a "Row 1" which they meant "Row 4" but either way they were wrong in both accounts haha.
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Wow I just now realized that the shamrock keycap is row 3 keycap.. the more you know. But the thread said it was a "Row 1" which they meant "Row 4" but either way they were wrong in both accounts haha.
It's a function row-sized cherry profile, which is coincidentally very close to the 'tab' row on filco/WASD/etc keycaps.
So just remember that SP row1 ~ filco row2. This is because SP caps are generally shorter.
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Take off the spacebar and put an Esc key there. You'll need to practice making sure you aim right though.