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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.