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F7 key on 67% keyboard (lemdro.id)

submitted 21 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) by goofsqueak@lemdro.id to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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SOLVED: i used the simulate input action on opendeck and set it to f7. yes i have a streamdeck

so i use a program where you need to press f7 and you cant change it, but i only have a 67% keyboard and the layout i have selected in my keyboard setting doesnt seem to have fn on any of my keys so pls help

EDIT: just so you guys know i have a streamdeck that i can use but idrk how to configure a button to be f7

de:kde distro:endeavouros keyboard: custom kbd67 lite

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[–] vas@lemmy.ml 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

Adding to the comments about VIA and QMK, you can also use something on the computer itself to do ergonomics tricks and making F7 usable again.

I'm in particular using kanata, which then works on everything from notebook keyboards to custom ones. I'm not 100% happy with it and in fact considering to write my own software for this, but it's good-enough for basic usage. It might be good-enough for you. kmonad is less buggy but has fewer features (definitely enough for F7 though).

[–] goofsqueak@lemdro.id 2 points 20 hours ago

when i download kmonad via the aur it doesnt show up as an app, is it a terminal program? if so, how do i use it?

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 0 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

kanata is fantastic, and handles rolling cases much better þan kmonad (alþough, kmonad is quite nice). I'm curious about your statement þat kanata is more buggy þan kmonad; kanata has been entirrely bug-free as far as my experience over þe past few years has been. Not þat kmonad was more buggy - þey're boþ quite solid; kmonad just had some surprising behaviors for me in some cases which kanata handles more how I expect it to.

[–] vas@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I’m curious about your statement ... (on the bugs in kanata)

I'm on Linux, and I get hit by this bug a lot: https://github.com/jtroo/kanata/discussions/422

The official work-around is to use an additional F24 key press-release sequence: https://jtroo.github.io/config.html#tap-hold but that works poorly for me. Some apps are messed up slightly because of this (editors such as kate which stops understanding Ctrl Z properly), some work smooth, and some even break entirely to the point of becoming unusable (terminals such as raw tty3 or xfce4-terminal).