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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: thirdkind on Sat, 02 February 2013, 20:14:57

Title: HHKB Pro arrow keys and Dvorak
Post by: thirdkind on Sat, 02 February 2013, 20:14:57

I've been using a Filco Linear R tenkeyless for a few years now, and I'm thinking of picking up a non-printed HHKB Pro for use with a Dvorak layout. Will using the Dvorak layout in my system settings affect the position of the embedded arrow keys, or are the arrow keys hard mapped no matter what layout I choose in software?

Title: Re: HHKB Pro arrow keys and Dvorak
Post by: Nunez on Sat, 02 February 2013, 20:22:48

I'd assume the Arrow keys would stay arrow keys regardless of what remapping you do with software. Its as if the keyboard is sending arrow commands to the computer, not fn + key.

Title: Re: HHKB Pro arrow keys and Dvorak
Post by: spherific on Sat, 02 February 2013, 21:00:52

The keyboard is sending a hardware Arrow signal. It's not going to matter if the layout changes to dvorak.

Title: Re: HHKB Pro arrow keys and Dvorak
Post by: thirdkind on Sun, 03 February 2013, 02:51:13

Nice. That's what I figured, but I wanted to make sure. Thanks guys.