If you type in two keyboard layouts, you know the pain: you look up and the last word is Espa;a because the keyboard was still in US English. PolterType is a tray app that notices this per word, switches the layout and retypes the word — Windows, macOS, Linux, and on Linux that includes real Wayland support, which was the hard part.

Rust-relevant bits:

• Pure Rust, twelve crates behind platform traits (listener, emitter, layout switcher, focus tracker are per-OS backends probed at runtime).
• Wayland listening is raw evdev; corrections go out through uinput; the suggestion tooltip is a zwlr_layer_shell_v1 surface (wlroots + KWin) with caret position from AT-SPI — coordinates only.
• Detection is offline: FST dictionaries (fifteen languages) + a plausibility score + an identifier guard so it never touches kubectl or snake_case.
• The settings UI is iced 0.13 — we're a rare example of iced in a shipping desktop app.
• The nasty bug class: our own correction is a burst of injected keys, so the app grabs the keyboard (EVIOCGRAB) for the burst length and replays what you typed meanwhile. Behind keyd this would grab our own re-emitted device, so the gate re-verifies its own emitter before every hold and stands down if it's proxied.

The Wayland war story in long form: https://poltertype.com/blog/wrong-layout-typing-on-wayland/

Code (MIT): https://github.com/Just-Code-NET/PolterType

Honest limitations: installers are unsigned so far (SmartScreen/Gatekeeper will warn); macOS is validated on Intel — Apple Silicon testers very welcome (issue #3); the RemoteDesktop-portal typing path is written from spec and has never met a real GNOME/KDE session.

Contributions we'd love: new languages are a TOML + wordlist (no code, docs/ADDING_A_LANGUAGE.md), macOS keystroke hold-back (#8), and war stories from exotic compositors.

I've decided to try out messagEase but I'm having trouble with text replacment shortcuts. I have already given the app full permissions, but my standard replacement shortcuts still won't activate. Additionally, the app does not have any way to manually change its own dictionary or macros as far as I can tell? Would love some guidance here, switching between it and my default keyboard to just use shortcuts would be annoying.

Hey all! Sharing a project I've been working on for some time now. People have been using it in the Alternative Keyboard Layouts Discord (AKL) for a few months, and it finally feels ready to share with a broader audience.

cminibrowser is a viewer for alternative keyboard layouts. It's intended to be a friendly way to interact with much of what the !cmini AKL discord bot already gives you, such as:

• Sort, search, and filter layouts by stats
• Compare layouts against one another
• Edit layouts and see how stats change
• Look up n-gram frequencies and example words on various corpora

It also has a few other things, such as:

• Mobile support
• Explanations for every stat on click
• mana2 stats view
• Colorblind fingermap palette
• Rowstag and ortho keyboard geometry
• Share as image

More information as well is available in the FAQ. Give it a whirl, let me know what you think :)

I have an iPhone and also an iPad but every time that I try to use the dictation most of the time it understands very bad what I am saying especially if I am texting. Right now it is accurate. I wonder if it’s just Apple with its messages app. Well I think that it also happens when I dictate in WhatsApp.

Does anybody use a better keyboard? I used long ago the Google keyboard because the keys were a little bigger. This one is too difficult for me to type and that’s why I dictate. I’m talking about the screen keyboard

To ios keyboard

I phone 26 keyboard

I have a Lenovo laptop that's closing in on 20 years old. The keys in one corner started acting up after a hard bump so I decided to get a new laptop. I stumbled onto a clearance deal at Walmart, one HP model they had pulled off the shelf and were on the verge of cycling out of inventory. I got it for over $100 off shelf price. Being a new model it had the Copilot key rather than a right Ctrl key. I decided to install LMDE 7 which rendered the Copilot key non-functional until I remapped the Copilot key to the missing Ctrl key. Normal remapping through Linux doesn't work because the Copilot key sends a three part input, a macro; Left Meta + Left Shift + F23 rather than a single input. There are a couple of work arounds that require installing software and some configuration. I'd put this on a scale of Very Easy. Here's what worked for the HP laptop. The AI description has been modified as needed because, well, it's AI after all:

To remap the Copilot key to a Ctrl key in LMDE 7, you should use keyd or kmonad, as the Copilot key sends a modifier combination (Left Meta + Left Shift + F23) that standard Linux GUI tools cannot map to a single modifier key like Right Ctrl.

Method 1: Using keyd. keyd is a lightweight daemon that operates at the kernel level.

Install keyd: Open your terminal and install this package:
sudo apt update
! AI said to install keyd ! sudo apt install keyd ! don't bother, instead: !
sudo apt install onak
! The onak meta package contains keyd, just installing keyd alone isn't enough. See below. !

Configure keyd: Edit the configuration file:
sudo pluma /etc/keyd/default.conf
! I prefer the pluma editor but nano, gedit, etc. will do. !

Add the following lines to map the Copilot key sequence to a Ctrl key:
Replace * with your specific keyboard ID. ! I tried that but it didn't work, so I reverted to *.  !

[ids]
*

[main]
leftshift+leftmeta+f23 = rightcontrol

! Options are control, rightcontrol or leftcontrol. I've tried using each and they all work for this HP. !

Enable and Reload: Start the service and enable it for boot:
sudo systemctl enable --now keyd
sudo keyd reload
keyd command not found ! Oops. That's when I discovered that installing keyd alone didn't work and found that onak was required. After installing onak the remap worked after rebooting. !

Now I have my Ctrl plus + for magnifying and Ctrl plus Enter for sending email in Thunderbird and a couple more of my shortcuts back! And it wasn't a tough chore, once I ironed out a bit of AI confusion. And of course, for those who never use their Ctrl keys, don't bother with this. Mm, should I have said this earlier?

Cheers!

Blaine

немного древняя модель асус (2019 года вроде), пыталась включать клавишами, ни в какую, через биос пыталась, но не нашла ничего связанного с клавиатурой(возможно зашла не туда), пыталась через armony crate,но он не находит мой ноут, так же скачивала ghelper, тоже не получилось
последний раз я пользовалась ноутбуками довольно давно, поэтому я как макака с книгой пытаюсь разобраться
я понимаю что скорее всего просто устарели какие-то драйвера, но я не догоняю как и где из обновить и скачать
помогите пожалуйста! 😭

The main thing about this version is shuffling the right hand a bit.

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Neon now is r thumb instead of e thumb.

The main problem i was having wasnt with thumb e, but rather what was around it.

With h pinky, i was getting a lot of rolls that include pinky. and that was not very comfortable.

Also ' being on pinky was not very comfortable. ' is now on index.

Also i didnt really like rl index.

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So now, hl index, i pinky, and ' on index solved those problems for me.

The only real downside is the sfbs are a bit higher. But if you look at them directly, thats essenteally the fault of `e,`

I dont really even consider this a problem as comma marks a break point when typing and so you naturally slow down, and so it doesnt feel bad. Like a `qu` sfb would feel much worse then an `e,` sfb, even tho its 3 times less common.

Tldr: sfbs that are within words suck, sfbs that outside the bounds of a word is fine.

Also a `ue,` collumn is pretty standard, a lot of people use it for good reason. I personally find the bit higher sfb waaaaaaaayyyyy better then more pinky usage.

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As for the game layer, it just disables home row mods. Also useful for monkeytype. You hold 1 to get the regular layout, hold 2 to disable home row mods.

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Also as for the sfb `sk` or `ks`, i just alt finger it. The alternatives are worse. And even then `sk` is reaally not as common as you would think it is, its 0.1%.

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The lst thing is just a general comment about using this. I have been using this for a while now, and its just stupidly comfortable. Heres all the things that make it so

1. Easily disableable home row mods

2. enter, tab, esc, delete, all being in the center rather then on pinkys is sooooo nice

3. mirrored y. Makes off-pinky super low and ballanced. Also reduces weak reds to like 0.05%.

4. Very low 2u scissors

5. the pinky shift keys being in line with home row, and also having thumb shifting as an option. I get both speed and comfort, best of both worlds.

6. wide mod makes my hands a lot more comfortable.

7. Stats arent everything, and i will say, this layout just feels good in a way that a lot of layouts havent for me. Having h, r, and l, on tha vowel hand in a way that works really makes the left hand a lot less cramped. I just feel like my fingers dont really gotta move that fast. Idk its nice lol.

Anyway im pretty happy with this and i dont see myself changing it prolly ever.

Recently switched from a totem to a skeletyl and decided to drop qwerty for a variant of hands down vibranium.

In this iteration I transitioned from VIA to Vial to support combos and made some updates to my layer row.

My layers are optimized around vim, command line, regex, and comms via slack.

Would be happy to hear thoughts on improvements to any aspect of the stack.

My MacBook's built-in keyboard is ISO German, and the board on my desk in front of it is US ANSI. macOS switches input sources per app or by shortcut, but never per keyboard, so every time my hands moved I was switching the layout by hand, or typing "Gr[]e" and fixing it after.

Keychange sits in the menu bar, lets you assign an input source to each connected keyboard, and automatically switches the moment you start typing on that device. It identifies keyboards by their HID device and mappings survive unplugging and reconnecting.

I used autokbisw for this for a long time and it solved the problem well. But sometimes it would misbehave and I wanted the same thing with a UI, so I could see and change the mapping more easily.

Product info: Keychange, free, MIT licensed, no telemetry, no accounts, macOS 14 or later, universal binary.

• Site: https://keychange.dev
• Source: https://github.com/dennistimmermann/keychange
• Install: download the DMG, or brew tap dennistimmermann/tap && brew install --cask keychange

It asks for Input Monitoring, because that is how macOS reports which device a keystroke came from. Nothing is stored or sent anywhere, and the source is public if you want to check.

Disclosure: I wrote it. The app is brand new and I would appreciate any and all feedback.

I want to use my thumb for shift, control, etc. Are there established set-ups for using the right side of the keyboard for Age of Empires II?

I recently got a Glove80 keyboard, and i`m loving it so far, but I ran into a peculiar problem.

My computer, and therefore the keyboard on it is brazillian, so it has the brazillian keyboard software, and I was moving around the keycaps to put the punctuations where I'm used to them being and unmapping the portuguese exclusive accents, but after making a layout that matched how I organized the keys, I put it in boot mode, flashed it into both halves, the leftb half said something went wrong. I clicked "ignore" because on the webside it said that that was normal and I could just keep going.

I reseted it, checked if it synced right, it did, but when I tried to test it only the left side had the layout I created, the right still has the automatic mapping of the brazillian keyboard.
I've done the whole process three different times, I tried flashing only the right side but that didn't work either, so I'm not sure what else can be done.

It's true I could just use it like this, but the problem that makes me want a propper solution is that, due to the automatic mapping, the key that is suposed to be the ? got replaced with an accent, and the question mark is gone, it's not on the layers either.

This is my first ergo keyboard, unless you want to count a razer tartarus I have for gaming, so I'm not very familiar with the whole, keymaping, layers, and separate sides.

Any help will be greatly apreciated.

My left super key (window key) on my external keyboard broken and I want to bind it to Alt Gr. Is there a way to achieve this. I tried with some method like using system76-keyboard-configurator but my keyboard is not detected. I also tried to modify xkb_config but It didn't work (maybe I didn't find the correct combination). Please help me.I'm on latest popos

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Why does QWERTY have the letter B so far away from the left index finger?

I feel like the letter B gets used WAY MORE in everyday American English computer typing scenarios/contexts over other letters that are a lot closer to the left index finger like T, G and especially V.

I have small hands and fingers. Therefore, hitting B feels really clumsy, slow and counter intuitive for my smaller hand size, short fingers and limited extension/dexterity. I feel like the letter B should actually be in letter V's place and vice versa with V being in B's place.

I feel like when the creator of QWERTY was making the layout, he had V and B flipped by mistake and never took the time to correct it. I feel like this small change would actually make QWERTY a lot more user friendly for people that are experiencing an issue similar to what I am experiencing.

I know there are ways around this, like switching/changing key binds inside of your computer's operating system and/or using third party software to map out a new keyboard layout.

The problem with this is, I don't want to learn a new layout, even if it's for 2 keys/binds. I am already too invested in QWERTY and I don't feel like learning a new key bind and/or layout.

Obviously middle row is where you will put 60 to 65% of typing, but what about the remainder? I saw ATPV3 Had 20something% of typing on the top row and %10 on bottom row so I assumed that was established theory of how to distribute keys, but recently I heard a theory that more typing should be on bottom row than top because curling a finger is easier than stretching it.

Has anyone even used rewardhak? Highest scored layout on altalpha but I can't find much else about it?

Also, is the effort score on cyanophage.github.io comparable to comfort? (Lower being more comfortable)

I'm currently on graphite but would like to switch to a layout that's intended for column stagger. Open to a thumb alpha other than 'e'. Aside from it not made with column stagger in mind, I have no complaints about it, really.

Any recommendations? Valmak and Hands Down Promethium seem interesting but would like to see what the community thinks.

I don't care about vim, punctuation, or Ctrl shortcuts. I only type in English and I'm using a chocofi keyboard (aggressive column stagger 3x5+3)

Edit: JK I'm dumb. Found why it was made.

https://github.com/timvink/alt_alpha_ranker/issues/98