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My Keyboard Situation

My Keyboard Situation

Isobe Kazuhiko

February 18, 2019
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  1. What is Helix? "Self-Made" Keyboard Development by owner of "Yusha-kobo"

    (遊舎工房) 1st "Self-Made Keyboard Store" in Japan Opened at 2019-01-15
  2. What is QMK? Open Source keyboard firmware Defact standard firmware

    of Self-Made keyboards Multiple layers Macros Play Audio, OLED Display, lighting the LED, etc
  3. Pros of QMK Firmware Customize the key layout freely Multiple

    layers Frequently used key combination as one key
  4. What is Dvorak layout? Patented during 1936 by Dr. August

    Dvorak Standard in Linux, macOS, Windows OS Probably, I used about 16 years
  5. Pros of Dvorak layout Less finger motion, reduces errors compared

    to the QWERTY "AOEUI" On the left hand home position good compatibility with Roman input of Japanese
  6. Common Japanese Ipnut Method Roman character input most people use

    JIS Kana Use Hiragana keys on JIS keyboard Some people occasionally use it
  7. What is Thumb-Shift Input method? Invented by Fujitsu in the

    late 1970s On Japanese word processor named 'OASYS' NiCOLA Layout
  8. Pros Thumb-Shift IM The number of keystrokes is about 60%

    Compared to Roman Charactor input method The most accessible 30 keys on the keyboard It can represent 90 characters.
  9. What is Karabiner- Elements? Keyboard customizer for macOS Hook key

    input and convert it It can manage states using variables
  10. Pros Karabiner- Elements Make Thumb-Shift input method available Customize the

    key for each applications Change the behavior according to the state of IM
  11. How to get Team ID of Kernel Extension % sudo

    sqlite3 /var/db/SystemPolicyConfiguration/KextPolicy sqlite> select team_id, bundle_id ...> from kext_policy ...> where bundle_id like '%Karabiner%'; G43BCU2T37|org.pqrs.driver.Karabiner.VirtualHIDDevice.v060800