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Just get replacement keycaps with Mac legends and remap with software or firmware. That’s what I do with my keyboards.
by jagger27 6y ago
Just get replacement keycaps with Mac legends and remap with software or firmware. That’s what I do with my keyboards.
- Hamuko 6y agoBut I want one with a Mac keyboard layout, not just keycaps.
- jagger27 6y agoAny keyboard with QMK can be remapped to a Mac layout. Also Macs have supported positional key remapping since forever.
- Hamuko 6y agoThey can't. There's literally a different layout of keys. Unless your remapping actually moves, removes and adds physical keys, they can't.
- uberduper 6y agoWhich keys are you referring to?
- Hamuko 6y agoCmd, Alt, Fn, F13~F19 are usually the problem areas, with Fn being located in a completely different wrong part of the keyboard, messing up the modifier key row.
- jagger27 6y agoI’m telling you this as a person with half a dozen Mac-layout custom mechanical keyboards on my desk and shelves: they can and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Command belongs next to Space, I agree. Edit: I see. You want four modifiers on the left. That’s pretty uncommon. I remap Caps Lock to Control so I leave Fn in the bottom left.
- Hamuko 6y agoBased on my experience, I bet none of your keyboards have the function key in the correct place.
- jagger27 6y agoFunction is fine, but Control gets moved to (in my opinion a better place) Caps Lock. The thing is that what you’re asking for isn’t impossible. The keycap support is there. A small tweak to the plate and PCB would do the trick. It’s funny though, Apple doesn’t put Fn on their full size keyboards.
- Hamuko 6y ago>Apple doesn’t put Fn on their full size keyboards. I'm looking at my full-size Apple keyboard and there is a Fn. It's just not where >99% of mechanical keyboard manufacturers think it is.