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1. Christian Horn (globalc@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Dec-2021 06:05:35 UTC Christian Horn

   Just right before the festive days: the System76 Launch keyboard arrived, my first keyboard with real switches. It's nice, so far! It's an 80% model, has exactly the keys I need, and typing just feels great.

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 24-Dec-2021 06:07:04 UTC Bernie

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     @globalc I like the split space bar!

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 24-Dec-2021 06:08:31 UTC Bernie

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     @globalc But I think having English words engraved on the cursor keys instead of the usual arrows is odd...

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 24-Dec-2021 06:11:57 UTC Bernie

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     @globalc AAARGH! The horror! The qualifier keys are not in the same order of a Thinkpad keyboard (*). How do you cope with it?

     (*) which is Fn, Ctrl, Super, Alt, Space, Alt(Gr), PrtSc, Right Ctrl.

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 24-Dec-2021 06:23:39 UTC Bernie

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     @globalc With any keyboard, you could make Caps Lock become a more ergonomic Ctrl key. It can be remapped on X11, Wayland and even in the Linux console. I also know how to remap it in Windows!

   • Christian Horn (globalc@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Dec-2021 06:23:40 UTC Christian Horn

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     • Bernie

     @codewiz That's right, and that's the piece which I still need to adapt to.
     ctrl / alt / fn / super / space
     is the order here. I'm a VIM guy and also jump forward/backward in lines often using 'alt', that feels still a bit awkward. Will see what it's like in 2 weeks.

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 24-Dec-2021 06:28:42 UTC Bernie

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     @globalc How's the configurator tool?

   • Christian Horn (globalc@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 24-Dec-2021 06:28:43 UTC Christian Horn

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     • Bernie

     @codewiz But actually, one could simply reorder that by oneself
     *considering_that_now*

   • Christian Horn (globalc@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Dec-2021 02:06:15 UTC Christian Horn

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     • Bernie

     @codewiz Builds nicely on Fed35, and I reconfigured now into Thinkpad layout, with one additional tweak:
     Thinkpad allows in Bios to switch ctrl <-> Fn, and I made the left Fn key now also a ctrl key.
     https://fluxcoil.net/wiki/hardwarerelated/launch_keyboard#conpiling_the_software_on_fedora35

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 25-Dec-2021 02:07:18 UTC Bernie

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     @globalc I think this is a typo:

     "Bottom left Ctrl is the only key which does now have the proper cap."

     s/now/not/ ?