Kinesis Advantage360

https://kinesis-ergo.com/keyboards/advantage360/

options

wired or bluetooth
tactile clicky (Gateron Brown) or linear quiet (Kailh Box Pink)

got the wired one with tactile switches

manuals

profiles

current profile indicated by color of left side center LED
- 0: Off, 1: White, 2: Cyan, 3: Green. 4: Red. 5: Blue, 6: Yellow, 7:Orange, 8: Green-Blue, 9: Pink
switch
- ⚙ + number

layers

current layer indicated by color of both sides right LED
- Base: Off, Kp: White, Fn1: Blue, Fn2: Green, Fn3: Red
Fn2 and 3 are only accessible via the SmartSet software

direct programming

⚙ + ③
- LEDs flash 4 times to signal the v-Drive is opening
- LEDs flash blue while the v-Drive is open to indicate the keyboard is in temporary state
mout v-Drive and edit files in layout directory
- $ sudo mount /dev/sda /mnt/sda1 -o uid=1000,gid=1000
- $ nvim /mnt/sda1/layouts/layout1.txt
- $ sudo umount /mnt/sda1
⚙ + ③
- LEDs flash 2 times to signal the v-Drive is closing

onboard remapping

hold ⚙ and tap ① → LEDs flash rapidly
tap source key → LEDs flash slowly
tap destination key → done

keymap (see modification below)

=   1 2 3 4 5 kp   ⚙ 6 7 8 9 0 -
TAB Q W E R T ¹    ³ Y U I O P \
ESC A S D F F ²    ⁴ H J K L ; '
⇧   Z X C V B        N M , . / ⇧
FN  ` ⇪ ← →            ↓ ↑ [ ] APP

        ___  ___   ___  ___
   ENT  SPC  WIN   ALT  BKSP Mcr1
            CTRL   CAWX

* APP = Menu key (used as Compose key)
* CAWX = Ctrl + Alt + Win
* Mcr1 = Ctrl + Space (switch input method)

modifications

arrow keys
- swap up and down
  - reason
    - match j and k vim navigation
thumb clusters
- swap "deleters" and "whitespace adders"
  - i.e. space and enter are on the left side, while backspace and delete are on the right side
  - reason
    - always hit space bar with the left thumb
    - am used to backspace with the right thumb from the split space bar of the Vortex Core
- swap enter and space; swap backspace and delete
  - reason
    - resting thumbs on the farther of the two tall buttons feels more natural
- replace delete with input method change macro
  - reason
    - never really used delete
    - very frequently switch input method
- change home, end, pgup, pgdown to keys I actually use
  - left
    - home → win
    - end → ctrl
  - right
    - pgup → alt
    - pgdown → ctrl+alt+win (for window manager hotkeys)
- change right FN to menu key (used as compose key)
  - reason
    - to be able to type German umlauts and the ß (see Compose key)

adjustment/alignment of shortcuts

common navigation with <some modifier> + j/k
- i3
  - go to window left/right: ctrl + alt + win + j/k
  - move window left/right: ctrl + alt + win + shift + j/k
- browser (vimimum)
  - top down: j/k
  - prev/next tab: J/K

weird key positions to get used to (aside from thumb clusters)

`~ below z
[{ and }] below . and /
=+ left of 1

layouts/layout1.txt

  [spc]>[ejct]
  {ejct}>{-lctr}{spc}{+lctr}
  [ent]>[bspc]
  [pgdn]>[cawx]
  [pgup]>[lalt]
  [down]>[up]
  [up]>[down]
  [home]>[rwin]
  [end]>[lctr]
  [bspc]>[ent]
  [del]>[spc]
  [rfn]>[app]