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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • That’s interesting I didn’t know that. I used to share workstations with someone from indonesia who had what seemed like very strange habits of employing caps lock constantly. I assumed it was just a personal weirdsy but maybe it was due to use of caps lock in another linguistic context.

    However, I know for a fact that it doesn’t do anything I need. I’ve had it remapped for a couple years on personal machine without issues.

    Thanks for telling me though, because I will be sure not to fallback to the registry or another method that changes behavior system-wide. Would not want to prevent anyone else from using the device.





    • I have small hands that makes certain key combos involving ctrl difficult/uncomfortable to reach
    • at home I have caps lock remapped and therefor I am constantly using it by muscle memory
    • Even before I had remapped it at home, I would sometimes enable it by accident which is annoying
    • in previous versions of windows (I think windows 8?) I could disable caps lock entirely in a system setting but it seems they have removed this option from more recent version
    • it’s right there




  • So you mean it would have no effect, yes? On restart it will have the same settings and firmware it did prior to pressing the reset button?

    I looked at the QMK docs to see about using it from the terminal. But I am not clear about how to get around the issue of the firmware not being up to date.

    I don’t quite trust various bits and pieces I’ve found about how to use it around the web. Like the configurator page for this device says

    Reset Key: Hold down the key located at K00, commonly programmed as Esc while plugging in the keyboard.

    compared to the keychron docs I linked to in the OP which says

    reset the keyboard by pressing fn + J + Z (for 4 seconds)

    And also describes an actual reset button located under the space bar.

    Why are they different…? It seems like keychron probab knows how to reset their own device. So I wonder if it is a good idea to load anything from this qmk page using methods I don’t understand well because I’d never be able to get myself out of a mess.