Some modded their HHKB Pro 2 with a programmable controller but I'm not sure the mod is compatible with an HHKB Pro JP. I'm using a HHKB Pro JP since forever: Topre is my "end game" switch. > Please consider buying a programmable keyboard instead of X11 hacks, i say this as someone who put up with the problems for a decade. I don't really understand how you can get weird thumb positions on an ergodox though. > No more weird thumb positions, or elongated pinkies. No pinky and both hands are used (instead of doing left hand for ctrl and left hand for x). I'm using "key at the left of my tiny space bar +. Then I have one for you: you can use something else than ctrl to do ctrl-x in Emacs, using ctl-x-map. I did that years ago and since then I'm a happy camper. I spend countless hours on my keyboard setup and, to me, it's perfect. I configured things I use in Emacs all the time, like ivy / avy, to never require the pinkies (I removed the keys supposed to be pressed by pinkies from the list of available candidates). I do other cute things: OP mentioned using Emacs a lot.
Anything I need to do that is related to the WM gets done using a dedicated modifier. I'm sure it can be even better: say by doing it at the keyboard controller level, bypassing the OS entirely but what I have works well enough for me.Īnother trick: a modifier dedicated only to my window manager. This is sweet because as actual arrows key code are sent, this works in every single program as if the arrow keys were actually pressed. The modifier is always under my left thumb (I'm using a japanese keyboard, so the space bar is very narrow and I'm using the key at the left of the spacebar as the modifier for ijkl (and for other shortcuts). It's not unlike gamers using wasd or esdf: ijkl mimics the arrows keys cluster. I'm for example using "modifier + ijkl" to send actual arrow key codes so I don't need to move to the arrows key cluster. I'm using a very custom keyboard configuration and I'm doing all my config using Linux's xkb (X Keyboard Extension).
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