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My wife recently bought by mistake a keyboard whose layout I couldn't figure out. It took me a full 5 minutes to even get to the correct place where I could con
by SwiftyBug 6y ago
My wife recently bought by mistake a keyboard whose layout I couldn't figure out. It took me a full 5 minutes to even get to the correct place where I could configure keyboard layouts under Windows 10 settings. Then I had to choose the keyboard layout I wanted to add. This was a list in a dropdown with hundreds of options without an image of what each layout looks like so I could not check which option matched the keyboard in front of me. There was not even an input field where I could test the chosen layout, I had to switch back and forth from the Notepad. After many tries, I finally got it right: Portuguese. Completely by trial and error.
- majewsky 6y agoI like the method that Mac OS uses to detect the layout of a newly connected keyboard. It brings up a dialog asking the user to press specific keys (something like "type the | character") until there is only one possible layout that would generate the observed keycodes for the characters in question.
- bombcar 6y agoIt’s really well done - and usually Identifies the most common keyboards in only a few key presses.
- eitland 6y agoSame method as certain mainstream Linux distros has been using the last few years? Or has Mac been doing this for even longer (I cannot remember how it worked back in 2012, the last time I used Mac.)