#Windows 10 qwerty keyboard remaps c key how to#
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#Windows 10 qwerty keyboard remaps c key Pc#

If you touch type, you can touch type on it without re-learning anything. Now let's talk about the pros and cons of this layout.

#Windows 10 qwerty keyboard remaps c key how to#

At the end of this post you will find how to test the layout if you are interested. You can already try this layout by yourself on your computer (if you use Windows, a Mac or a keyboard using the TMK firmware). You may wonder how it is possible, because we are using the space bar all the time, and not for the purpose of triggering navigation keys, so it MUST interfere and create all kind of problems!? But it does not! There are various safeguards in the design of the layout and in the way it is implemented that ensure that it is working as expected. I have been using this layout exclusively for more than 10 days now, mainly on a Poker, but also on a Realforce 87U without ever using the dedicated arrows and functions keys. And of course you should be able to swap Ctrl and CapsLock. For example you should be able to have the backquote still in place at the top left of the keyboard, you should be able to use WASD or HJKL for the arrows if you wish. There are a few things that should be configurable. Now from the two pictures above, you can tell that this keyboard can do everything a standard keyboard can do. The space bar is our Fn key, hence the name of the layout: SpaceFN. NOTE: all the keys that have no legend do the thing they do when space is not pressed. Here is what the keys do when you press and hold space: > YOU PRESS THE SPACE BAR AND HOLD IT!Īnd then while holding space you press another key. So how do you access the arrow keys and all the other missing keys?

There are no arrow keys! There is not even an Fn key to access another layer of functions, like on all 60% boards! No learning curve, you can start using it immediately. Keeping the backquote on top left is not a problem. We have just replaced the backquote ( ` ) key with the Esc key for convenience, but we actually do not even need to.

#Windows 10 qwerty keyboard remaps c key Pc#

This keyboard is just the alphabetic (or 'typewriter') cluster of a standard PC keyboard. So here is a proposed 60% keyboard (let's say it has Cherry MX or Topre switches): (links to credits at the end of this post) The authors/users of vi/vim for championning the idea of having arrows in the home row. Lydell for implementing it for Windows (as an AHK script). Edgar MATIAS for his work on the dual use of standard keys as modifiers, 20 years ago. So I would first like to credit the following people: The SpaceFN layout is based on ideas that are not mine. I'm just trying to contribute and hopefully improve on the current 60% layouts. I'm not going to create a keyboard myself. You can already try it on your own keyboard.

It may even be useful for the Ergodox or similar ergonomic keyboards. It may already be useful as an alternative to the default layouts of the Poker X, Poker II and HHKB.

#Windows 10 qwerty keyboard remaps c key full#

In this post I introduce a layout that is designed with a future 60% keyboard in mind, but which actually works on all standard keyboards, even full sized ones.