Ergonomic, split and other weird keyboards
Posts must be of/about keyboards that have a clear delineation between the left and right halves of the keyboard, column stagger, or both. This includes one-handed (one half doesn't exist, what clearer delineation is that!?)
i.e. no regular non-split¹ row-stagger and no non-split¹ ortholinear²
¹ split meaning a separation of the halves, whether fixed in place or entirely separate, both are fine.
² ortholinear meaning keys layed out in a grid
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I see this board a lot, how do you all deal with not having a control key?
I have two control keys! They're under D and K, through the miracle of mod-tap. Look into home row mods, it's a game changer. Here's my keymap for reference — it's a bit of a work in progress, I keep finding little things to tweak or improve.
As it stands, the two outer thumbs (App/Alt) aren't even mapped at the moment, they're too tucky for my hands, and the outer row on the left isn't exactly what the cap legends say, either.
mod tap sadly doesn't work for me as I use a buncho weird keychords and i play videogames
Why not make a "game" layer that doesn't get in your game-playing way, and have mod-taps on the rest? (as far as they don't interfere with the chords, of course)
It does have (space for) a control key. At least my 2 lily58 do.
I've only seen them in the 6x4+thumbs layout not 6x5 option
Yes, but it depends really on what you want to bind where.
In my case, I have no capslock and I have ESC, TAB, shift, ctlr (on the outermost column) and alt, super, lower, space (on the bottom row/thumb. Obviously with qmk (or similar) you can change what you want, but I assumed it was pretty standard layout (in fact, I changed very little from stock keymaps in qmk).
yeah, I want the ctrl in the ctrl spot cuz I press it with my palm when playing games, currently im using an ergodox-ish board I made
Oh I see what you mean, control in the leftmost place in the bottom row. Yeah, that's not possible. I don't use the lily58 to play the games where I have years of muscle memory to be honest.
Oh sweet! Do you have a link?
Sure! I have several:
Awesome! Thank you!
That's looking really good!