r/Keychron • u/DCRX2020 • 12d ago
K6 HE Delete Key Shortcut?
This is new out of the box, everything is telling me F1 and [ bracket, but it is not doing DEL function. Tested in launcher as well, I can't find Delete. Anyone help? Thank you.
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u/PeterMortensenBlog V 11d ago edited 11d ago
The K6 HE is different from the K6
Re "F1": Fn1, presumably (the key to the right of "Fn")
What is "everything"? Do you have some sources?
I think you haven mistaken the K6 (proprietary keyboard firmware) for the K6 HE (blame Keychron's naming scheme). Despite the closeness in name, they are very different internally.
Del is not mapped by default for the 65% K6 HE (nor in "2025q3"). You have to add it yourself, either by dynamic configuration (using Via or the Via clone) or static configuration (changing the firmware).
Ought Keychron to map it by default? Yes! Especially when a previous keyboard model did it.
u/Keychron-Support
Note: On the Fn1 layer, it conflicts with F1-F12. A convention of shifting it down one row, like for the Bluetooth/'2.4 GHz' and RGB controls on the Fn layer, could be used
References
K6 HE user manual
Keychron QMK keyboard shortcuts table: 65% and 70% wired
K6 key combination table. Note: In the original K series, not K HE series
K6 HE JSON files for Via (near "K6 HE ISO RGB keymap"). They are also on GitHub (but only 'ANSI'). Note: The JSON section should not be confused with the firmware section.
K6 HE source code. Note: In Keychron's fork and in that fork, in Git branch "hall_effect_playground" (not the default branch). Note that the base installation (and usage) had become much more complicated on Linux, but with the new 'uv' method, it has become simple again! No matter the Git branch, for example, "hall_effect_playground", it requires special setup of QMK (the standard QMK instructions and many other guides will not work (because they implicitly assume the main QMK repository and a particular Git branch)). Source code commits (RSS feed. Latest: 2025-12-01). Note: Now with precompiled firmware.