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r/MechanicalKeyboards•
sixmill

How have you programmed your Mechmini?

I've been trying to replace my 60% board with my sweet new Mechmini, and I'm running into trouble making the key layout work to provide the same level of functionality. It occurred to me that there are many folks on this subreddit that have been using 40% daily drivers for quite a while. So, my question is this:

What do your key mappings look like on your 40% boards that have allowed you to replace larger boards for everyday use?

Thanks in advance!

Posted May 11, 2017, 3:24 PM UTC

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MrMontgomeryMechmini,Gherkin,Miuni32,Planck,Minorca,AMJ40,Satan60,DuckyTKL,•

this is how the layers are on my 30% that I use in work

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AznreaperPlanck | TX75 | TXCP | zz96•

Split spacebar and caps lock as a function key helps alleviate most of my issues with the mechmini. One spacebar is spacebar, other is enter, the key beside L is ' which lets me type pretty smoothly without much of a learning curve. Esc top left, and tab on right alt means I have pretty much all the keys I'm used to on a 60%

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MrMontgomeryMechmini,Gherkin,Miuni32,Planck,Minorca,AMJ40,Satan60,DuckyTKL,•

On my amj40 I had each of the space bars also acting as function 1 & 2 keys when held down

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AznreaperPlanck | TX75 | TXCP | zz96•

Well mechmini is based on bootloader and not QMK, so as far as I know you can't do that even though it would work quite nicely

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MrMontgomeryMechmini,Gherkin,Miuni32,Planck,Minorca,AMJ40,Satan60,DuckyTKL,•

Oh, that sucks a wee bit, haven't used bootmapper yet

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sixmillOP•

Well now i regret not going with the split spacebar setup... Thanks for the reply.

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kaybeerry•

My favorite tricks are SFT_T(KC_ENT) for right shift so when it's tipped it makes Enter keycode. You could use it for , or / if that's where shift lives.

Second best is using capslock for FN1

Third is making spacebar a tapkey for FN2.

On my split spacebar 40%, left space is fn key for lower layer and right space is fn key for raise layer.

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