Shopping for a new keyboard

Well I'm loving my new keyboard(see post #47), the tactile feedback is so much more...'affirmative', pleasing...but my spelling still is atrocious and I still inadvertently hit the CAPSLOCK key by mistake. I know there's a way to disable locking the Capslock, will have to look it up .
the keyboard hooked to my other desktop machine is a 15 yr. old Rosewill keyboard, still quite functional but the key action feels so...mushy.
I'm going to replace it with another mechanical keyboard, they're really not that expensive, but life's too short to put up with a mushy feeling keyboard! :p
 

JeeperDon said:
There is an Accessibility option to make the cap lock key beep when pressed. It helps me a lot. Oh, I forgot, I think you're not on Windows.
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There is a GUI keyboard layout options utility in Linux, but the quick & easy route is to type in Terminal:
Code: 
setxkbmap -option caps:none
+ Enter. Voila! No capslock.
 

Nathan said:
There is a GUI keyboard layout options utility in Linux, but the quick & easy route is to type in Terminal:
Code: 
setxkbmap -option caps:none
+ Enter. Voila! No capslock.
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reminds me of the old dos days,

Had professor tell us if we could write the code for a specific program in less that 650 characters we would get an A in the class and not have to attend classes. I wrote the program in 640 characters, no spaces and no line breaks. That was back in the 70's.
 
Gardenlover said:
reminds me of the old dos days,

Had professor tell us if we could write the code for a specific program in less that 650 characters we would get an A in the class and not have to attend classes. I wrote the program in 640 characters, no spaces and no line breaks. That was back in the 70's.
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(y)

I'm not generally "nostalgic" but back in the 70s...those were the days.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I have to yank out the "Caps" key on my keyboards. My big fat finger also hits the "Caps" key every time I hit the next door "A" key. Then I have a line all in caps. Grrrr.
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I have that problem from time to time, even though my little finger will never qualify as fat. So how do you capitalize a letter then? Oh, wait, I figured out the solution before I posted: Use the shift key. Yeah, now that I think about it, Caps Lock might be the least necessary key on the keyboard.
 
I always have my "fat fingres" problem when I type on my phone, so I need to do proof-reading every time I send text out.
 
I recently upgraded to a Keychron V1 Max mechanical keyboard. The difference is truly night and day. Much better than the cheap keyboard I was using.
 

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JustDave said:
I have that problem from time to time, even though my little finger will never qualify as fat. So how do you capitalize a letter then? Oh, wait, I figured out the solution before I posted: Use the shift key. Yeah, now that I think about it, Caps Lock might be the least necessary key on the keyboard.
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Yup, I rip that cap lock key right out. It's either that or having all capitals whenever I type an "A".
 
I've switched off autocorrect on texting on my phone because of an extremely embarrassing autocorrect the other day - it corrected someone's name to what could be seen as an abusive word. Not the first time it's happened either (curiously both recipients are of Slavic origin but there's no other connection between them!).
 
I said earlier in this thread, there is an Accessibility option in Windows to make the cap lock key beep when pressed. Locked gives a 'beep', unlocked gives a 'boop'. I like having the caps lock option, but it's a lot easier to prevent retyping a wrong-caps phrase when it's audible. [The beep/boop key also helps when you want to test if your sound working.]
 
Nathan said:
Same here. There is a simple Terminal command to disable Capslock in Linux, in Windows the procedure to disable Capslock key is more involved.
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I googled "disable caps lock" and got a bunch of mostly useless information. The simplest one was one of those go to xxxx>xxxx>xxxx>xxxx directions but I could not find any of the "XXXXs," which happens so much of the time that I believe new updates change the process that once worked. But I did figure it out using 2% of what google offered in one of those hair pulling forever experiences of searching nooks and crannies in the operating system.

Now I don't know the names of all the things, but you used the word "Terminal Command" I take it that the terminal command is the lower left icon on the the bottom search bar of the desktop. It's the artistic "lm" (linux mint), which takes you a hundred or so functions in linux. Is that the Terminal command?

Anyway "disabling caps lock" can be found there, and it worked. Now it takes me only seconds, but the first time took a large part of an hour. with half of that searching through all the functions.
 
When I asked for help in locating a keyboard for someone losing their eyesight, I was directed to the VisiKey keyboard. This was years ago.
I still have it, and also, a snug matching silicone numbered cover over it to preserve.

This is on a Mac computer, which comes with the worst keyboard ever made!
 
Doste said:
I recently upgraded to a Keychron V1 Max mechanical keyboard. The difference is truly night and day. Much better than the cheap keyboard I was using.
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The key to a good tactile response is indeed to get a Mechanical Keyboard. If you really want to get into it, find out which color switches a keyboard uses, and choose accordingly. Different colored switches have different characteristics (I favor red).

But the keyboard I use today goes one step farther - it's RGB. Now, I'm usually not bother about RGB, buy in the case of a keyboard.... I am often sitting in complete darkness when I'm on the net, and without an RGB (ie. Keys that light up) it would be more difficult.

Switch Types - Mechanical Keyboard
 
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