qmk_firmware/keyboards/foostan/cornelius/keymaps/gipsy-king
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keymap.c
readme.md

readme.md

Gipsy-King's Cornelius layout

Common typing only needs a base and a symbols layer. Layer changes are on the thumbs including shift and non-english variants.

The importance of having shift on your thumbs is that you don't need to press some letters with pinky OR ring, depending on shift.

Base QWERTY layer

  • Tab, Backspace, Space, Ctrl/Alt/Mod are similar to a generic keyboard.
  • Esc is like when you remap CapsLock to Esc on a generic keyboard (vim).
  • Enter is on right thumb and raises Symbol layer on hold, because you rarely hold.
  • Shifts are on both thumbs!
  • Leftmost thumb changes to Xmonad window management layer.
  • Rightmost thumb is Right-Alt which is for us-intl-altgr layout (althoug I use kmonad to universally map international characters on all keyboards).
  • - and = are on the lower pinkies.
  • F20 is mic-mute on my thinkpad laptop.

Symbol layer (Raise)

  • Top row is numbers, bottom row are their symbols. Most people do it the other way 'round.
  • Middle row has curly brackets, and some navigation and arrows.
  • Square brackets are on the lower pinkies.
  • ```~|`` are places aroung top/outer corners.

Xmonad layer (Window management)

I use Xmonad to completely manage windows with just my keyboard. This layer accommodates most shortcuts.

Fn layer

Lastly, some macros, mousekeys (not used, really), some media keys, and the function-keys (I use them maybe once in a decade).