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GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only | MIT License |
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kanata
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QMK and Keyboards
Gotta give a shoutout to kanata[1] which I have used daily for years at this point after giving up on QMK-powered keyboards.
QMK itself is great, but I was never able to find a non-columnar split ISO keyboard to use it with. Eventually I reluctantly settled on the Logitech K860[2] and I'm now happily using my favourite features from QMK with kanata at the software level.
[1]: https://github.com/jtroo/kanata
[2]: If I'm behind the times and there is now a QMK-compatible keyboard that looks like this, please let me know!
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Emacs boffins guide to reprogramming keyboard for EXWM?
This is not in Emacs, but if I can't modify my keyboard's firmware (e.g on a laptop), I use Kanata https://github.com/jtroo/kanata. It works by creating a virtual keyboard in Linux (and uses a filter driver or process hooks in Windows), so it can work in any program as they just see a normal keyboard.
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HHKB Studio: The New Happy Hacking Keyboard with TrackPoint
Besides the better caps word (by the way, you can have it in software in Win/Linux apps like https://github.com/jtroo/kanata/blob/main/docs/config.adoc#c...) you can also toggle capslock with e.g. a double tap while having on-hold functionality to the more useful Control, so you still wouldn't need to hold any modifier key
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iowa - a keyboard layout for modern hebrew, because none really exist
jtroo/kanata: Improve keyboard comfort and usability with advanced customization (github.com)
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Kanata: Improve keyboard usability with advanced customization
One particular approach that one might find it interesting is how the configuration is laid out (using S-expression from Lisps).
[0] https://github.com/jtroo/kanata/blob/main/docs/config.adoc
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Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts
Kanata[0] is amazing. It support both Linux and Windows. But I'm yet to try it on windows because my majority work is on linux.
[0] https://github.com/jtroo/kanata
- Keyboard Layout Is Broken
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komokana
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Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
kanata[1] and komokana[2].
kanata is basically like QMK for any keyboard without the firmware requirement. I use kanata with my trusty old iMac keyboard which is to this day my favourite keyboard of all time. But now I have all the cool QMK-style layers with it.
So that is awesome on its own, but where it gets even better for me, and this is where the seconds have really added up to hours, is that I wrote another piece of software which programmatically changes layers on kanata whenever a different window is focused in my tiling window manager.
This has honestly changed -everything- for me. I no longer have to waste keys on my keyboard to switch layers, I no longer have to -think- about switching layers, I just focus another window with alt+hjkl and whatever keyboard layer I expect for any given application is automatically applied. Definitely one of those "you can never go back" experiences for me.
[1]: https://github.com/jtroo/kanata
[2]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komokana
- Show HN: Komorebi – A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11 written in Rust
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ErgodoxE EZ – an ergonomic keyboard with open source firmware
I have an Ergodox EZ sitting collecting dust these days. I got a great deal of use out of it and before long I was compiling my own firmware and making use of various advanced QMK features that were not available through the online visual layer configuration tool.
The keyboard has great build quality, the customer service is great (I got a free replacement for the right half after an issue with one of the keys), the ortholinear layout isn't that difficult to get used to, but ultimately the issue for me was that my hands aren't big enough to use the keyboard comfortably or to type as accurately as I'd like / as I'm used to typing.
I'm now back on my Apple Magic Keyboard and happier than ever, though with a few tweaks and improvements taken from my time using the Ergodox EZ.
I am now using kanata[1] which allows me to have multiple QMK-style layers on my regular old keyboard. This is already a huge step up from my pre-Ergodox days! I also like that I can have my layer configurations version controlled in a plain old git/dotfiles repo.
Since the layers are handled at the software level, I wrote my own integration with kanata, called komokana[2] to switch keyboard layers programmatically based on different state events emitted from my tiling window manager[3].
What that means in practice is that my keyboard can automatically switch to an app-specific layer when that app's window is focused, or to a workspace specific layer, or to a browser tab-specific layer, or really just switch on any event emitted by the window manager or any specific window manager state.
For me, this is really the killer feature of my setup now, and one that I don't think would be anywhere near as easy to implement with QMK which sits at the hardware level.
[1]: https://github.com/jtroo/kanata
[2]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komokana
[3]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi
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diesel-autoincrement-new-struct: Generate NewStructs for all your tables with autoincrementing IDs
Hello friends! You may know me from my previous posts about my tiling window manager and my automatic keyboard layer switcher (or maybe even my harebrained attempts to get Helix to behave more like Vim!)
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- komokana: Automatic application-aware keyboard layer switching
- Show HN: Komokana – Automatic app-aware keyboard layer switcher written in Rust
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Introducing komokana: An automatic application-aware keyboard layer switcher for Windows
With all of these pieces now in place, I am very happy to introduce komokana. an automatic application-aware keyboard layer switcher for Windows.
What are some alternatives?
kmonad - An advanced keyboard manager
komorebi - A tiling window manager for Windows 🍉
keyd - A key remapping daemon for linux.
yasb - A highly configurable cross-platform (Windows) status bar written in Python.
capsicain - Powerful low-level keyboard remapping tool for Windows
qmk_configurator - The QMK Configurator
splitKbCompare - An interactive tool for comparing layouts of different split mechanical keyboards
helix-vim - A Vim-like configuration for Helix
keymapper - A cross-platform context-aware key remapper.
ErgoDox - ErgoDox Mechanical Keyboard pcb & acrylic case