I’ve been happily mucking about with a modified Colemak layout for my new Keyboardio Atreus and wanted to share. I’ve mostly been using Chrysalis, which is nice, if a bit unstable (about 1 in 1066 uploads to the board, the upload to the keyboard fails and the app goes to a white screen.) The layout…

I love this. This is very close to my own thinking, at least for layer 0. How do you find the lock to 1 button, isn’t that in an uncomfortable place?

Hey @Zindar ! The Lock 1 button is a slightly awkward place, but I more often use the L#1 shift keys. that are next to the Enter and Space keys. The Lock button is mostly when I want to type a bunch of numbers or use the movement keys.

I tried to do this but the problem I have with it is that when typing fast I managed to hit ctrl / alt / gui by mistake all the time. Currently I ended up having shift on Z and the button where / normally is (I have enter and shift there now).

[image] Zindar: I tried to do this but the problem I have with it is that when typing fast I managed to hit ctrl / alt / gui by mistake all the time. In case you didn’t know, it is possible to make an adjustment in the firmware (not via Chrysalis, unfortunately) that makes Qukeys less likely …

I’ve been having trouble with the Hold-keys and tried this fix without noticeable success. According to the code, the overlap percentage must be less than 100. So I have now set: Qukeys.setOverlapThreshold(99); This seems better although I’m still getting occasional errors.

Sorry about the misleading documentation; you can set the overlap threshold to 100%. That means the subsequent key must be released before the qukey for the release-order condition to trigger making the qukey take on its alternate state. In other words, setting it to 100 turns off the grace period,…

Since reading this post yesterday I have converted to modifier-when-held on home row, in a fashion similar to yours. It’s working great and I haven’t noticed any mis-triggers at all yet. And now I have a ton of extra options for that bottom row. So thanks!

I’ve been living with my layout for a while now and have made a few small adjustments, mostly geared towards getting more on the base layer and freeing up more of my mouse hand. Also, I’ve added a few conveniences - an F4 button in the lower-left hand corner (as I’ve had to spend too much time in sp…

Oh, wow! I did not know about that F4 shortcut! Thank you for mentioning it! Also, it’s interesting to see how different people choose to lay out their home-row Qukeys modifiers. I have mine the opposite way, with shift, as the most often used one, under my index fingers. I also like it that way to…

That’s interesting, @merlin - I hadn’t considered your approach to the modifier keys. For the most part, I’ve tried to rely on having muscle memory between layouts. So far, it works pretty well, though I still have some trouble with my thumbs – they expect things to be symmetrical when they a resti…

Atreus Layout: Colemak for macOS w/ Qukeys

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zak (zak) December 19, 2020, 10:57am 14

Interesting. I’ll have to give that a go and see how I like it.

Minimizing finger stretching a.k.a. my Atreus has too many keys

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Atreus Layout: Colemak for macOS w/ Qukeys

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