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Is there any way to rearrange the positions of keys/switches entirely? (fedia.io)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/mechanical_keyboards@programming.dev
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Hopefully I can make this clear with an example. On my current keyboard, Alt is directly under X and Win is directly under Z. On most of the models of mechanical keyboards I have looked at, those keys are shifted well to the left of where I am used to. The bottom row layout is often (3 keys, spacebar, 4 keys). If I could switch it to (4 keys, spacebar, 3 keys), that would match what I am used to.

I am testing out an Aula F87, and I've found that the difference is not just cosmetic. I use the Alt and Win keys a lot between video games and my window manager, and it is substantially less comfortable to have to reach the additional distance so frequently.

How much work would I have to do to, or is it even possible at all, to move things around as described? If it's not possible, does anyone have suggestions for finding a keyboard that matches what I want (other than just looking at pictures of lots of keyboards until I find one that looks comfortable)?

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[–] 1 point 3 months ago

Are you fundamentally opposed to doing the remapping at an OS level? I suspect that most, if not all, OSes permit for such remapping in one way or another. For many, that might be an acceptable workaround.

I also think I vaguely recall some USB device from quite some time back that you could plug a keyboard into that proxied for the keyboard and provided macro functionality at the keyboard level for keyboards that couldn't do that, and I could believe that it might be able to remap.

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Probably not the device I was thinking of, but this appears to be a dedicated USB remapper:

https://www.remapper.org/

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