WKL Question

[Blackehart]

So why is it called winkeyless?

Ive seen a 1x or regular windows key sized key between the ctrl and alt keys on a WKL setup.

Can that key be set to the windows key?
Whats the point of having that key? Is it functional?

I could see functionality of a MENULESS setup... *shrug*

[IvanIvanovich]

Winkeyless is used to describe 101 keyboards made before 1995. These don't have Windows or menu key. Others with a 1.5 1 1.5 7 1.5 1 1.5 bottom row are typically customs and the 1 units keys can be assigned to anything the user wish. There are older keyboards with that too... but they often had some special function assigned to them such as on the Cherry G80-1600.

[Blackehart]

Winkeyless is used to describe 101 keyboards made before 1995. These don't have Windows or menu key. Others with a 1.5 1 1.5 7 1.5 1 1.5 bottom row are typically customs and the 1 units keys can be assigned to anything the user wish. There are older keyboards with that too... but they often had some special function assigned to them such as on the Cherry G80-1600.

So IN THEORY, I COULD program a WKL to have a winkey but not a menu key?

[absyrd]

Winkeyless is used to describe 101 keyboards made before 1995. These don't have Windows or menu key. Others with a 1.5 1 1.5 7 1.5 1 1.5 bottom row are typically customs and the 1 units keys can be assigned to anything the user wish. There are older keyboards with that too... but they often had some special function assigned to them such as on the Cherry G80-1600.

So IN THEORY, I COULD program a WKL to have a winkey but not a menu key?

Fully programmable board is fully programmable.

[IvanIvanovich]

Right well if you are talking about customs like KMAC, LZ, etc... those are programmable so you can do whatever you want. For stock boards like vintage G80-1000 or something, you can use some kind of remapping utility like sharpkeys but you have to decide what other key to sacrifice on the reassignment since you can't physically add any extra keys to that. For example when I am using old winkeyless Cherry board I may reassign caps lock to Windows since I find Windows key very indispensable on Windows 8.1 while the caps lock key is essentially useless to me. If I want to get context menu I just use the mouse and right click.

[Blackehart]

EXCELLENT!

I thought that winkey meant not having it in the programming aside from not having it on the keys.

[Quardah]

Lol these are my favorite threads.

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