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Offline regicide

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« on: Thu, 10 March 2011, 01:56:01 »
I thought I was posting this to the modification sections... this can now be found here: http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:16103
Sorry guys >.>
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« Reply #1 on: Thu, 10 March 2011, 02:05:09 »
i dont know how you guys type on anything but qwerty.  it took me like 3 seconds to find where g was.
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« Reply #2 on: Thu, 10 March 2011, 02:55:01 »
I find your escape placement personally weird...but I'm happy to see someone using the marquardt heros arrow placement.
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« Reply #3 on: Thu, 10 March 2011, 03:18:11 »
This was honestly meant to be in the modifications forums... idk how the hell I managed to put it here >.>

You can now find it at: http://geekhack.org/showwiki.php?title=Island:16103

Can admin please close / lock / ignore this thread?


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I find your escape placement personally weird...but I'm happy to see someone using the marquardt heros arrow placement.
I'm a Vim user, so I use escape A LOT and caps lock is a waste. The original plan was to have Ctrl there, but then I switched from emacs to vim....

marquardt arrow placement? Never heard of it nor used it... Just thought it would be a better usage of the space, and considering I already use hjkl for moving around in vim and my window manager the same layout but dedicated to arrows seemed to be a good idea... yay for reinventing the wheel.
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« Reply #4 on: Thu, 10 March 2011, 03:22:06 »
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i dont know how you guys type on anything but qwerty.  it took me like 3 seconds to find where g was.


I still use qwerty for my day to day life.. learning a new keyboard layout is a slow and painful process >.>

Although I do type on a blank keyboard anyway, I just cant afford to just jump into dvorak due to the loss of productivity (I'm a student / open source programmer / gamer) >.>

So I use dvorak when I can, but type things like this in qwerty, hence the switch: that way I can use dvorak all the time, and if typing gets difficult swap to qwerty without having to close my application, change settings, possibly reboot, etc.
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« Reply #5 on: Thu, 10 March 2011, 07:14:57 »
Eeek.  So this modified-Dvorak layout which has never been seen before is going to come with blank keycaps?  That's a heck of a learning curve.  Seems more like a lottery whether you get the character you were hoping for.
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« Reply #6 on: Thu, 10 March 2011, 14:54:13 »
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Eeek.  So this modified-Dvorak layout which has never been seen before is going to come with blank keycaps?  That's a heck of a learning curve.  Seems more like a lottery whether you get the character you were hoping for.


Hahaha it does seem a little daunting doesnt it...
But it will have a switch to toggle between dvorak and qwerty, but in either layout the only difference is the alphabetical keys, the others will remain in their spots :)

The alphanumeric keys are all pure dvorak, the only modifications is the caps lock becoming an escape, the lower modifiers (Which I dont use) becoming arrows and hiding other functionality in a second layer over 'obvious' keys (seems obvious to me, fn 1 becomes f1, fn up becomes pg up, etc.)
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« Reply #7 on: Fri, 11 March 2011, 10:10:19 »
On layout, standard QWERTY signaling is an option? So can do custom-layout also on the OS end...
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« Reply #8 on: Sat, 12 March 2011, 02:09:34 »
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On layout, standard QWERTY signaling is an option? So can do custom-layout also on the OS end...


Well there will be a hardware layout to switch between two layouts (currently qwerty and dvorak for the alphanumeric keys). However the two layouts are really just arrays of character codes, so on the firmware you could make it any two layouts (affected any of the keys), but if its in qwerty mode then yes the OS could remap the keys.
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