Modifier keys on ALT?

[ronny-rentner]

This is more of a suggestion or hint, not an issue.

I personally use a similar, independently developed layout with characters moved to the center of the keyboard with more levels.

Though, I use both ALT keys as modifier keys which I press with my thumbs. This works well on most notebooks and is much superior than using your weakest finger to press the modifier keys and then also unevenly distributed because in your layout, you use the right little finger a lot more than the left little finger.

PS: Is it possible to get the code for measuring the typing distances? I'd like to run it on the source code of the Linux kernel.

[jackrosenthal]

Though, I use both ALT keys as modifier keys which I press with my thumbs. This works well on most notebooks and is much superior than using your weakest finger to press the modifier keys and then also unevenly distributed because in your layout, you use the right little finger a lot more than the left little finger.

A lot of window managers and applications (e.g., emacs) use the Alt key, so I'd want to avoid making this modification at the keyboard layout level. However, this is usually easily changeable in your OS should you want to re-bind the Alt keys themselves.

PS: Is it possible to get the code for measuring the typing distances? I'd like to run it on the source code of the Linux kernel.

I believe I used http://patorjk.com/keyboard-layout-analyzer/#/main for the typing distances in the README file. I'm not sure how well this would work on the linux tree, however.