New link for where the Steno plugin docs are: Steno — Kaleidoscope documentation
The main advantage of this explicit support in Chrysalis / Kaleidoscope (e.g. the _L and _R and N# keys from the “Steno” section) is listed at the top of the docs:
No need to toggle Plover on and off, because the normal keys are not taken over by Plover anymore.
This allows me to type e.g. Dvorak on the keyboard on my laptop, and Steno on the external plugged in to my laptop (a Moonlander), without toggling any settings!
However, I can’t seem to get my Atreus to work with GeminiPR / Plover (on a newish MacBook Pro)… any advice is welcome!
My workflow is to plug in the keyboard, then open Plover, Configure, go to the Machine tab, the Machine tab shows “Gemini PR” and under the Port field I click the Scan button and then select /dev/cu.usbmodemCatreusE1 (Baudrate defaults to 9600 and I leave it alone), then click OK and ensure the Output toggle is on Enabled. (This is the same workflow which is effective with my Moonlander.)
I have only the Layer 0 defined in the Atreus, with the “Steno” keys. None of them produce any output; the other keys defined (e.g. arrows, Enter) do react as expected.
(I’ve found that Chrysalis can’t connect to the Atreus if the Plover app is open… no idea if that’s a useful clue)