![]() There are several keyboard channels on youtube, I suspect how good they are depends upon one's personal taste. They also have a youtube channel, which is sometimes helpful. has a lot of good articles on keyboards. I haven't yet seen any proprietary keyboard software that was anything but wretched. I've never used that software, so maybe I'm opining from a position of ignorance here, but I find it hard to imagine it being anything other than wretched. But if you're used to prim and proper peripheral software (such as Razer Synapse). It displays what the key is programmed to (of course), but somehow it doesn't display "on-screen legends" which are somehow something different that you would like to see? And it's also somehow a problem that you have to "look down" at the keyboard in front of you that you are actually programming? I really don't know what you're asking for here, or how you think it ought to work differently.Īnd then. Instead, VIA displays what the key is programmed to, so I often had to look down to figure out which key I was programming. There are no on-screen legends for the function layers. (Also, this sentence no verb!) I think it's complicated by the strange way this board supports Mac and Windows, where most people would simply use VIA to set their board up for one or the other, as desired. I've been trying to parse this, and it's kinda dense. I mean, I've read that paragraph a few times now.įor instance, when changing from from layer 0 or 1 in the app (the default Mac and Windows key mappings) to layers 2, 3, or 4, which are for use when pressing Fn1 (Mac), Fn1 (Windows), and Fn2 (Windows), respectively. I don't understand the complaint about VIA's operation. Still, it be a simple matter of the keyboard producer getting their product into the VIA database. A better solution would be to store that data on the keyboard itself, which is how VIAL works, and I hope that this will grow in popularity. If it's not found in the database, for example if the keyboard is too new, then you have to load it manually. ![]() ![]() As I understand, VIA normally looks up the keyboard online and downloads that file from a database. I have several VIA-compatible keyboards, and one of them does make me jump through that hoop, and it's irritating. I understand that it's a nuisance having to manually load the JSON layout file. In fact, compatibility with VIA (or VIAL) has become table stakes for me now. It's free, it's multi-platform, it's powerful, versatile, and it's pretty much foolproof to operate. Why you raggin on VIA? VIA is the holy grail of keyboard remapping applications. ![]()
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