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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: synerr on Tue, 29 October 2013, 12:43:02
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Firstly, despite my age, I am new to proper keyboards - please be gentle :-)
I have a ""need"" to buy a compact keyboard for carrying around. This should serve two purposes:
1) be more portable than my kinesis contoured
2) have a 'normal' layout so I don't get stuck to the kinesis layout alone
[ Additionally I want it to be white, PBT keycaps and and with multi coloured lettering but that is a story for another day ]
So I naturally started looking at tenkeyless options and more compact such as the KBT Pure. If I understand correctly to achieve, say, F2 I need to press Fn->2. Will this translate to a Fn scan code followed by the scan code for 2 or is some translation done natively on the keyboard and just a single F2 scan code sent to the host?
Ta
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The translation is done by the keyboard controller - normally every FN layer works that way.
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The latter. Pressing the Fn key does not register anything software side.
Also, http://elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=pfu_keyboards,hhkbpro2