They work fine on Ubuntu in the original layout! Their names are Key_LeftBracket, Key_Semicolon and Key_Quote in the firmware code! I found them by trying the keys in the regular Ubuntu german key layout.
So yes, my intention is to be OS-independent - because I work with different OS’s and machines during the day, but all of them tend to have a german keyboard layout natively.
Here’s the link to the tastaturaufkleber shop. As an alternative, you could use the one provided by the neo2 wiki.
I see, that simplifies things.
(Accidentally posted too soon, I’m still getting used to the enter key’s location!)
I’m enjoying reading others’ ideas here, and getting some inspiration from them. Here’s my current layout, which I’m still tweaking–I just got my Model 01 this week. Blank keys on this map are unchanged from the QWERTY layout it shipped with. Yellow background is a change on the QWERTY layer, blue is a change on the Function layer, pink is a change on the NUMPAD layer.
I enjoyed the idea of the Any key, but I decided I’d rather have a second Cmd key, so I moved Alt there to make room. Similarly, I discovered I use both thumbs for the Space bar (not at the same time!) so I moved BkSp to the butterfly key to make room. I added a colon/semicolon to the Numpad layer since I often use the number pad for entering times in 10:00 format. I moved the down arrow under the up arrow and shuffled the volume keys around to make that work.
Still a work in progress.
Panders to a French user of bépo + vim + i3.
What you see is not exactly what you get, insofar as I need to tell the pc that I’m using the bépo layout for it to do what’s displayed here. My .ino is technically still a qwerty except for the stuff that was moved around and the changes made to the function keys. I prefer to have it this way so someone else can switch to qwerty, azerty or whatever.
Vim related stuff :
i3 :
General reasoning :
– “$ / #” is where it’s always been in bépo, but dabbling with PHP quite often, its easy accessibility is just phenomenal. Yay random chance 
I’ll save my .ino on my messy github some day.
Cool, to see another Neo Users here.
I’m also in the process of recreating the NEO layout in the firmware (thanks for figuring out the keycodes ;)).
I’m using Qukeys to map Mod3 directly on the home row, which is just amazing.
I posted the code to my layout several times in the forum. But I finally found the time to make an image of the layout:
Code and comments can be found here:
Just showing changes. Very helpful to have the keyboard layout editor.
I used a Kinesis for many years, plus of course other “normal” keyboards. I got my Keyboardio a couple of weeks ago and after several days of difficulty I figured out which keys were giving me problems and remapped the keyboard. Now I can type with little or no difficulty. Great keyboard!
I can also switch to “normal” keyboards easily again. As I was adapting to the original layout I was starting to have problems switching.
The moved location of the shift and enter keys was the most painful aspect of the layout. The location of tab was also a pain point.
This remapping puts most keys in familiar places for a US typist (similar to most keyboards including Kinesis) or in a few cases adopts a familiar layout but in a new location (e.g. inverted T arrow keys, bracket keys). Some of the specifics are handier for a Mac but mostly this tracks generic US keyboard layouts.
Looking at other posted layouts I see that very many of them have included the inverted T layout for arrows, and many of those duplicate it on the left hand as well. I’d have no conflicts putting a duplicate on the left hand, just didn’t occur to me.
I was surprised to find that I don’t have a strong desire to put a keycode on the one thumb key I left unmapped. No doubt I’ll think of something
I have moved my existing thumb keys around to reflect my layout as best I can, but I’m missing extra thumb keys for duplicated keys (cmd, alt) and one that I’d guess many people would find useful (enter). Perhaps some of the non-thumb keycaps could be moved around but I have not experimented with this since so many shapes are specific to locations.
Since many keycaps no longer reflect the actual function, if I had to look I’d find it very confusing, but I’m a typist who rarely looks at the keyboard. The only problems are when I have to find a little used key.
I can get along fine now, but ideally I’d like new keycaps that reflect this layout. I also think a layout with some of these proposals would make adoption of the keyboard much, much easier.
I was having real trouble with the shift keys the first couple of days. Every time I wanted a capital letter, I got a page down instead. I have moved the page up and page down to the far side of the keyboard. I moved shift and discovered I like the default location better once I was no longer randomly getting page down.
I like it, I just wish there was more of it. I’m really really missing the section of the keyboard that should be off to the right and my function keys.
I’m giving serious consderation to building the rest of it as an auxilliary keyboard.
The problem with key caps for tweaked boards is we’ve probably all tweaked them in different ways. I put backspace and enter back where My muscle meamory is expecting them to be, you haven’t done that.
here is mine:
It’s a hugely modified bépo.
I tried to place all the keys so the most frequently used one are the fastest to reach.
I run a keylogger during a whole day of work and compute the most frequently used keys.
max@laptop % sudo evtest /dev/input/by-id/usb-TypeMatrix.com_USB_Keyboard-event-kbd | tee -a keylogger
max@laptop % grep -F 'value 1' keylogger | grep -P -o '\(KEY_.*?\)' | sort | uniq -c | sort -h > keysort
max@laptop % tail keysort
966 (KEY_TAB)
984 (KEY_LEFTSHIFT)
1011 (KEY_RIGHTBRACE)
1168 (KEY_SPACE)
1252 (KEY_BACKSPACE)
1290 (KEY_I)
1315 (KEY_LEFTCTRL)
1658 (KEY_ENTER)
1932 (KEY_UP)
2069 (KEY_DOWN)
As you can see I read much more than I type (I work as a sysadmin).
I created a layout based on that. Then during a week I regularly changed some key positions that didn’t feel right (before I get too used to it).
For example I move the “:” near “esc” because I use vim a lot.
EDIT:
I did some modification (for example I moved the [] brackets), here is my current layout.
Just ordered mine (clicky) and am very excited. Jesse/Kaia (whichever answers emails) says new orders are probably going to ship around the end of the month. This is the preliminary version of the layout I’m going to go for. Needless to say, without a board, I can’t be sure this will be its final form.
I got rid of the numpad layer, as a layer, and moved the numpad down a row. I plan to do almost all my number typing on the numpad, so I don’t want to have to reach every time, nor take my fingers off the home row. that “num lock” on the ‘b’ key is a literal num lock button.
If I were planning to use the number key row as numbers, I’d probably shuffle them around. As it is, I might end up reassigning that row to their corresponding symbols, (as opposed to those of the programmer dvorak layout)
I’m thinking of adding all kinds of “modes”, or groups of related layers. I saw a good gaming layer somewhere on this forum. I’ll repurpose the num button as a mode button to switch between them. I’m thinking of “naming” them by a color and a single digit (e.g. “red 1”, “blue 3”), and coloring each row when picking. Then it only takes one press to pick from up to 30 or 40 modes.
The butterfly button is a compose key. I use a piece of software called Wincompose so I can use that functionality in Windows.
I might also eventually squeeze in F13-F24 for fun.
Still to be implemented:
Hello @algernon slight nitpicking here but for aesthetics sake can you adjust the central two keys of the left thumb cluster to be more in the curve? The right one is OK but I’m not sufficiently conversant with KLE nuances to do the changes myself. Thanks!
Heh, up until now, I didn’t even notice. Fixed it - at least I hope so.
Since I finally got my Keyboardio and had a chance to see how my fingers work with it, I designed my first draft of the layout I’m looking at using. It’s a version of Programmer’s Dvorak with some fun stuff mixed in.
Plugins so far:
OneShot
Escape-OneShot
LED-ActiveModColor
TopsyTurvy
ShapeShifter
Black = Button
Green = Shift + button
Blue = Fn + button
Purple = Fn + shift + button
Red = Numlock
MehA/B/C/D and Hyper keys are all modifier combos for fancy things I do with Alfred, Keyboard Maestro, and a few other apps
Moom is a window placement app I use
“Move 2 left/Right Display” is a macro to use Moom to move a window over to other displays
=> is just a quick macro to put in fat arrows for programming
Probably several changes to come as I get used to things, plus I’m taking this opportunity to try and learn Dvorak, so if that doesn’t go well over the next few weeks I will probably be recreating this with QWERTY.
I also have lots of thoughts coming for lighting effects that I am just putting off until I get used to programming the keyboard itself a little bit.
Comments on this are welcome as I’m just getting started here!
It’s been a while since your post here, but this is close to what I’m looking for. Would you mind, and is there a way you can share a link so I can fork your layout?
KEYMAPS defs too, would be greatly appreciated!
"Want punctuation on thumb keys - the (m)s stand for macros, they’re not yet functional but the intention is to do the punctuation, a space and a one shot shift, "
I’m interested how to do it (I tried some stuffs without success). I created a topic on it in Plugins section How to create a macro like typing Space then OSM(LeftShift) with OneShot plugin
Is a keyboard-layout-editor.com layout for the default QWERTY layout available somewhere?
It seems like a useful tool for displaying layouts, but I suspect many people would start with a default layout as a starting point and make a few minor modifications from there. I just want a nice way to show an alternate layout of thumb keys, it would be nice not to have to specify all the other default keys and their Fn alternatives etc!
Well, since I’ve received my M01, I’ve been doing fiddling and finally have reached a layout that’s more or less going to remain constant. Notes:
I think there’s some great functionality left to get out of some remapping but they’ll always adhere to these general ideas for ergonomics.
This is my layout, fully one-handed, inspired by the FrogPad layout and adapted to German and French use. I am using it on a Mac, so it is designed in a way that I can easily use shortcuts such as ⌘ + ⇥ to jump between windows or ⌘ + space to get to Spotlight instead of having to move my hand to the trackpad. Oh yes, and since my surname is annoying to type with such a “frogboardio” layout, it has a Macro with my surname. 
(Sorry for the bulky design, was too lazy to translate it into the layout editor…)
