Looking for mechanical keyboard with multimedia keys

[Matthew]

I think that from a year I was thinking about buying a mechanical keyboard. I am awful person. Week ago I told about it my friend. He bought it - das keyboard silent - for 550 zł (which is 130 Euro, which is 1/8 avg salary here). Hmmm... I think that he may be a little crazy.

Anyway, back to me (because talking about me is much more fun ;P). I am interesting in mechanical keyboard (with numeric keypad and MX Brown, which I think will be a good choice for the beginning) with multimedia keys, but true multimedia keys (they don't need to be mechanical), no Fn + FX. Is there any to buy? Or if not - is anybody here who bought Leopold keyboard with shipment do EU (or even better: to Poland) and can say anything about it?

Thanks for your help.

[7bit]

I think that from a year I was thinking about buying a mechanical keyboard. I am awful person. Week ago I told about it my friend. He bought it - das keyboard silent - for 550 zł (which is 130 Euro, which is 1/8 avg salary here). Hmmm... I think that he may be a little crazy.

Anyway, back to me (because talking about me is much more fun ;P). I am interesting in mechanical keyboard (with numeric keypad and MX Brown, which I think will be a good choice for the beginning) with multimedia keys, but true multimedia keys (they don't need to be, no Fn + FX. Is there any to buy? Or if not - is anybody here who bought Leopold keyboard with shipment do EU (or even better: to Poland) and can say anything about it?

Thanks for your help.

Get a G80-2551 (they are available for cheap right now) and then order some MX browns from the Phantom switch group buy. Without soldering it is possible to swap sliders and springs.

edit: Welcome to Deskthority!!!

[Grond]

In case you're using a Mac, you can easily remap any keyboard to use F-keys as Os-x media keys with keyremap4macbook.

[Matthew]

Get a G80-2551 (they are available for cheap right now) and then order some MX browns from the Phantom switch group buy. Without soldering it is possible to swap sliders and springs.

Thanks but swapping anything more that keycaps is a little to much for me, especially if it will be my first mechanical keyboard. Also G80-2551 is a little to big for me. I would like something looking like "normal" keyboard with multimedia keys (no much space on my desk).

In case you're using a Mac, you can easily remap any keyboard to use F-keys as Os-x media keys with keyremap4macbook.

Sorry, only Linux (for work) and Windows (for games).

[Gilgam]

You may find the answer with the Oracle. he has good answers. I think a mechanical gamer'z keybord is the key (cap ) but with Mx Brown i don't know.

Or maybe one of chinese keyboard.

[Minskleip]

Get a used programmable Tipro! Then you can program a layer to have numbers under M<>JKLUIO!

[7bit]

Get a G80-2551 (they are available for cheap right now) and then order some MX browns from the Phantom switch group buy. Without soldering it is possible to swap sliders and springs.

Thanks but swapping anything more that keycaps is a little to much for me, especially if it will be my first mechanical keyboard. Also G80-2551 is a little to big for me. I would like something looking like "normal" keyboard with multimedia keys (no much space on my desk).

Sorry, only Linux (for work) and Windows (for games).

Get a used programmable Tipro! Then you can program a layer to have numbers under M<>JKLUIO!

Yes!
You need a Tipro keyboard!

Not normal but 122 keys at the same width as the NoPoo!

edit: I can sell you one for 29 EUR plus shipping!

http://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?f= ... &start=109

[Spharx]

You all should consider that the Tipro controller don't really like the fancy weirdo scancodes that multimedia keys have. I personally did not found a way how to set them up with the ChangeMe software but as a solution you can write some some shortcuts in your OS

[mintberryminuscrunch]

zowie celeritas

[Icarium]

Get a G80-2551 (they are available for cheap right now) and then order some MX browns from the Phantom switch group buy. Without soldering it is possible to swap sliders and springs.

Thanks but swapping anything more that keycaps is a little to much for me, especially if it will be my first mechanical keyboard. Also G80-2551 is a little to big for me. I would like something looking like "normal" keyboard with multimedia keys (no much space on my desk).

Sorry, only Linux (for work) and Windows (for games).

Get a used programmable Tipro! Then you can program a layer to have numbers under M<>JKLUIO!

Yes!
You need a Tipro keyboard!

Not normal but 122 keys at the same width as the NoPoo!

edit: I can sell you one for 29 EUR plus shipping!

http://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?f= ... &start=109

At least tell him that you're selling them because the firmware is so buggy and half of what one wants to do never works.

[Minskleip]

Is it buggy? I haven't tried fancy scodes with the 122 key; doesn't it support them?

[Icarium]

What I tried is putting another letter on the second layer, it gets confused by shift + layerswitch. Depending on the order you press them it either doesn't uppercase the letter or shift gets stuck.

7bit has also been bitching about the firmware in the Tipro workshop thread.

[kbdfr]

Is it buggy? I haven't tried fancy scodes with the 122 key; doesn't it support them?

Sorry, I can't help there. I never used and don't want to use any multimedia keys.

[kbdfr]

What I tried is putting another letter on the second layer, it gets confused by shift + layerswitch. Depending on the order you press them it either doesn't uppercase the letter or shift gets stuck.

7bit has also been bitching about the firmware in the Tipro workshop thread.

I use S2 for lowercase and S3 for uppercase.

[Icarium]

So you have abandoned the shift key and just send upper case letters? Didn't know those had separate scancodes. Doesn't that lead to troubles with some programs that look at the shift key?

[kbdfr]

I do not send scan codes, but program the ASCII code of the desired character.