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I'd totally do this as well, if there were good software support in Ubuntu. Each time I think about another thing to maintain, I give up. I would like dedicated

by blagie 4y ago

I'd totally do this as well, if there were good software support in Ubuntu. Each time I think about another thing to maintain, I give up. I would like dedicated buttons for my different desktops (with proper labels), and there's a slew of other things I'd like. I wouldn't mind extra unicode characters either. My codemap lets my type 1+1≠3, but there are many more things I'd like to be able to type. Ain't gonna happen. The problem isn't hardware but software. Spare touchpad or trackball would also give me a lot, if I could configure it easily. Lots of places I want extra degrees of freedom.

3np 4y ago
What kind of software are you missing...? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34929498 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34929498
- blagie 4y ago
  Something that allows me to cleanly handle multiple keyboards and mice on Ubuntu, map them to interesting Unicode characters, as well as to macros. I'm not sure what your link does for me. It points to some proprietary Mac app, as well as a few keypads. The keypads are listed as "programmable" but: - Key codes don't correspond to Unicode characters or similar. - Multiple keyboards are a mess. I can't, for example, have a Greek keyboard (for math equations) and a US one (for programming) because the key codes overlap. - Most macro programming on these things is a train wreck. It's usually a proprietary app on an OS I don't use.
  - 3np 4y ago
    Proprietary Mac app...? Maybe you are looking at a different "qmk"? You can do all of this without any need for additional runtime software (apart from build environment to build and make changes obv) directly in the keyboard/pad with the mentioned qmk-firmware. You can build the pad from scratch, buy a kit, or a prebuilt (like the linked example). https://qmk.github.io/qmk_mkdocs/master/en/feature_unicode/ https://qmk.github.io/qmk_mkdocs/master/en/feature_unicode/ If I have it working in Alpine, Gentoo, NixOS, Guix, Debian, Mint, Arch and Rocky out of the box I fail to see why Ubuntu would be different ;) Another great option is zmk, which has better support for Bluetooth if that's your thing.

by blagie 4y ago

3np 4y ago

What kind of software are you missing...? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34929498 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34929498

blagie 4y ago
Something that allows me to cleanly handle multiple keyboards and mice on Ubuntu, map them to interesting Unicode characters, as well as to macros. I'm not sure what your link does for me. It points to some proprietary Mac app, as well as a few keypads. The keypads are listed as "programmable" but: - Key codes don't correspond to Unicode characters or similar. - Multiple keyboards are a mess. I can't, for example, have a Greek keyboard (for math equations) and a US one (for programming) because the key codes overlap. - Most macro programming on these things is a train wreck. It's usually a proprietary app on an OS I don't use.
- 3np 4y ago
  Proprietary Mac app...? Maybe you are looking at a different "qmk"? You can do all of this without any need for additional runtime software (apart from build environment to build and make changes obv) directly in the keyboard/pad with the mentioned qmk-firmware. You can build the pad from scratch, buy a kit, or a prebuilt (like the linked example). https://qmk.github.io/qmk_mkdocs/master/en/feature_unicode/ https://qmk.github.io/qmk_mkdocs/master/en/feature_unicode/ If I have it working in Alpine, Gentoo, NixOS, Guix, Debian, Mint, Arch and Rocky out of the box I fail to see why Ubuntu would be different ;) Another great option is zmk, which has better support for Bluetooth if that's your thing.