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Title: Is there a way to have the name of the active keyboard layer displayed on screen
Post by: ziwzih on Sat, 06 May 2017, 11:04:06

Running QMK. Ideally I'd have it in the task bar, but I am open to options. I've seen people with lil LED screens doing this, but I am not on a custom built board like that.
Thanks!

Title: Re: Is there a way to have the name of the active keyboard layer displayed on screen
Post by: kolec94 on Sat, 06 May 2017, 11:06:10

Yes i can be done

Probably a windows service and some added code to qmk firmware

Title: Re: Is there a way to have the name of the active keyboard layer displayed on screen
Post by: salinity on Tue, 09 May 2017, 14:16:29

With hid_listen (https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/hid_listen.html) you can use uprintf(...) in your code to write things and pipe them through to whatever display you want.  There are some examples in here (https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/tree/master/keyboards/ergodox/keymaps/algernon).