I just got camo filco tenkeyless. I wanted a camo filco for a long time. There is however a big drawback for me. The layout is very annoying. Small modifier keys, backspace. Aditional keys next to the enter...
In specific there 2 additional keys with some circle sign. One on the left and one on the right of the space bar. There is also a button called "Kana".
Any idea what they do? Also any suggestions on how i can remap them, for example to have a win key on the left?
And any suggestions what would be best i could do to make it more "normal"?
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Two things you can do.
1) post an ad and swap for a US layout keyboard.
2) open keyboard, desolder, and change the layout. The PCB supports US ANSI/ UK ISO with no issues. I have done this on multiple Filcos with no issue. The worst issue I ever had was when an entire line of keys failed to work - and then I realized that I hadn't soldered them in!
The only thing that's a tad more troublesome is buying the plate, since if there is no group buy for a plate at this moment you'll wind up paying a lot for a custom plate. But if you can accept a stock TKL plate that'll be easy and cheap since many people dump their stock plates for switch moddable plates.
Obviously if you're desoldering this board, might as well do a more complete mod - eg lube the stems, change to Ergo clears, do jailhouse mod, whatever.
You might even be able to take advantage of JDCarpe's Filco Fanaticism - offer him the camo casing or something in exchange for a stock casing and he might happily mod the board for you.
As for the JIS plate, don't throw it away - it's resaleable (and I might even buy it off you if no one else wants it).
