Mechanical Keyboards

9256 readers

4 users here now

Are you addicted to the clicking sounds of your beautiful and impressive mechanical keyboard?
If so, this community is for you!

Here you can discuss everything about mechanical keyboards (and only mechanical keyboards).

Banner by Jay Zhang on Unsplash

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

I like using my rotary encoder to prune tabs, what do you do with yours? (self.mechanicalkeyboards)

submitted 5 months ago by BuoyantCitrus to c/[email protected]

1 comments fedilink hide all child comments

My Keychron Q11 showed up recently and I've been super happy with it. Main reason was that my Noppoo Choc Mini finally lost a switch and I don't have any on hand (nor a soldering iron ...yet) but it turns out I actually really wanted the pair of rotary encoders on this and didn't even realise.

Specifically, I've got it bound to Ctrl-PgUp/PgDown so I can scroll through my tabs with it and close them with a click binding to Ctrl-W and that's working out really well.

Anyone else use the knobs like that? I've got the other one set to volume and the vendor had zoom as a suggestion but I wonder what else people do with these?

Bonus newb Q: On the product page they demonstrate binding Ctrl-+ zooming to the encoder via a macro but neither macro13 nor the {KC_LCTL,KC-W} type syntax would let me click "Confirm" when trying to associate it to the knob in Via (eg. it wouldn't let me follow their example). Luckily it was happy with the alternative of LCTL(KC_W) that I stumbled on somewhere but now I wonder how to properly associate a macro to a knob?

top 1 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Since I have an encoder on my newest keyboard, I try to find some use for it.

On the default layer, it moves the cursor left and right. I'm experimenting with inverting the control mod to move quickly word by word unless I press Ctrl. Pressing the encoder toggles a scrollwheel mode.

On other layers I have the obvious functions

volume
brightness of laptop screen, or of external monitor with Shift (with DDC protocol)
keeb backlight
brightness of indicators (for layers, caps word, special modes...)

It's fun to configure all this but then I find that I don't remember that it's there and don't use it much.