Ultimate Hacking Keyboard

Re:Ultimate Hacking Keyboard by rsaarelm on Saturday September 15, 2018 @04:12AM (#17993503)

I set up a linux trick recently where the caps lock key that's already being remapped as control when it's held down is also set up to emit an ESC when it's pressed and released using xcape. Works quite nicely, but I don't know if complex behavior like that can be implemented as a hardware mapping.

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Re:Ultimate Hacking Keyboard by PurpleRamen on Saturday September 15, 2018 @04:50AM (#17993566)

Yes, they call it Dual-role keys. On their blog there is a recent update about how this is now also visualized in their configuration-software. Seems the firmware and their configuration-tool is quite powerful.

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Re:Ultimate Hacking Keyboard by linsomniac on Monday September 17, 2018 @05:18PM (#18010179)

Ooh, gotta do this on my laptop! I have an Ergodox and have z and / set up to be control if I hold them, and the key left of a is Esc or GUI (I use GUI a lot for i3wm). I'll have to try this with the laptop, thanks!

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Re:Ultimate Hacking Keyboard by Graziano_M on Saturday September 22, 2018 @08:49PM (#18048796)

I do the same on OSX using Karabiner. I cannot live without it.

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Re:Ultimate Hacking Keyboard by codethief on Saturday September 15, 2018 @07:06AM (#17993826)

I did the same thing, albeit with my space key. If I press it shortly, it now acts as Ctrl key. This was literally the best thing I ever did to fight my RSI-like symptoms.

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Re:Ultimate Hacking Keyboard by oneeyedpigeon on Saturday September 15, 2018 @06:12AM (#17993725)

Used to be able to do this on macOS until the latest release broke karabiner. Hoping that, one day, this will be an os feature.

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