I have finally received my Ultimate Hacking Keyboard (some years after signing up for the crowd funding campaign). I went for the Cherry brown switches which have a nice solid feel when typing without being overly noisy.

Being a long time vim user, I wanted to set it up to work with my muscle memory and I thought I’d share what I did (having not found much else out there via google). So I dived into the Agent - which is a nicely put together app that makes it very easy to mess around with my own config.

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Base Layer

• disable switching to test mode
• escape rather than mouse
• use the left space as the mouse key

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Mod Layer

Obviously I want h,j, k and l to work as God Bram intended. So on the Mod layer, then become the cursor keys.

• PgUp, PgDn, Home, End
• …

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Mouse Layer

• h, j, k, l again
• scroll with the keys above
• left click wrong way round on the wrong hand?!?
  • clicks below hjkl
  • but keep one left click on left half for drag and drop

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Fn Layer

Not played with it yet much.

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Other Settings

Turn down the brightness. Very bright, but appreciated the option to be able to turn it down :)