Home Block Modifiers are an alternative to Home Row Modifiers, but with the pinky key replaced by the index colunm key in the bottom row.
- Home block modifiers are available on both sides of the base layers.
- Home block modifiers are not available on lower and raise layers, since they delay the symbol activation and are not that much useful anyway.
One-Shot Modifiers are modifier keys that, when tapped, remain active until the next key is pressed or a timeout expires.
- They act as standard mofiders when held.
- These modifiers will be automatically deactivated after 2 seconds.
- They can also be activated in sticky mode, with a double tap, and remain active until manually deactivated by tapping the Default Mod thumb key.
- One-shot modifiers are available on the left side of the navigation and mouse layers.
- One-shot shift will ignore the space key, being applied to the next key pressed.
- Stantard modifiers (Shift, Ctrl, Alt, Gui) are available on the left side of the functions layer. These standard modifiers do not have one-shot or sticky behavior, so they can be used in situations were a tap or multi tap in a modifier key is required.
The Default Mod key is a custom key that works as either one-shot Cmd or one-shot Ctrl.
- This key will activate the default modifier for the current operating system, which can be selected in the maintenace layer.
- When Mac OS is selected, this key activates Cmd, otherwise it activates Ctrl.
- If one-shot Shift is active, the default modifier will be inverted.
- This key allows using the same key combinations for shortcuts like Cmd/Ctrl+S, Cmd/Ctrl+C and Cmd/Ctrl+V.
- It is placed as a thumb key and behaves as follows, when tapped:
- If any modifier is active or locked in one-shot mode, all these modifiers will be deactivated.
- If no modifier is active or locked in one-shot mode, it activates the default modifier in one-shot mode.
- The hold behavior of this thumb key is used to activate the Navigation layer.
- Its alias in the keymap diagram is Mod.
- The Default Mod key is implemented using a custom keycode and a layer-tap.
- The hold behavior is kept as is, but the tap behavior is intercepted and customized.
- Source code: default_mod_key.c
The Capitalize key is a custom key that works both as Shift and Caps Lock.
- It is placed as a thumb key and behaves as follows, when tapped:
- If Caps Lock is active, it deactivates Caps Lock.
- If Shift is active or locked in one-shot mode, it activates Caps Lock.
- If Shift is not active in one-shot mode, it activates Shift for one-shot.
- The hold behavior of this thumb key is used to activate the Mouse layer.
- Its alias in the keymap diagram is Cap.
- The Capitalize key is implemented using a custom keycode and a layer-tap.
- The hold behavior is kept as is, but the tap behavior is intercepted and customized.
- Source code: capitalize_key.c
- Caps Lock is also available in the functions layer, but its behavior is not what we usually see. No matter how it was activated, Caps Lock will be automatically deactivated after 10 seconds of inactivity
- The caps lock timer feature is implemented by starting a timer when the caps lock is activated and deactivating it in the matrix scan, in case the timer has expired.
- The caps lock timer is restarted when a valid key is pressed.
- The caps lock timer is stopped and caps lock deactivated when Esc is pressed.
- Source code: capslock_timer.c
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