r/kinesisadvantage

Fievel contains everything you need to replace your mouse with keyboard on Linux (wayland). Currently Fievel is Linux only. It’s free and completely open source, written in rust:

https://github.com/MontyTheSoftwareEngineer/fievel/

Free mouse mode: freely move mouse using hjkl (or any keys of your choice via config file). Supports left click and right click which can be held useful for dragging. Also supports scrolling left down up and right as well as sending Home and End key to quickly jump to top or bottom of page. By default free mouse mode is in “hold” mode so as long as you’re holding the free mouse mode button (or chord) it will stay in free mouse mode. Releasing the free mouse mode button takes it out of that mode. There is also a config option to make it “toggle” meaning you press the button for free mouse mode and it will stay in that mode until you press the button again.

Hint Mode: draws rectangles on screen with corresponding letters at areas Fievel believes is clickable. Type the letters to make Fievel click on the rectangle of choice. Useful for quickly sending clicks in at certain locations.

Key Remapper: this is useful for setting “chords” on any keyboard not just programmable ones. For example, I have a+s together initiate super, s+d to initiate control, caps lock rebound to control unless held in which case it will turn hjkl to left down up right keys. d+f is bound to initiate free mouse mode. Also a set of super and control binds for the right hand side.

In case you're interested in other options:

Neru has been suggested a lot. I probably should have spent some more time looking and exploring this option as I believe you can make it do pretty much everything fievel can do and supports mac windows and linux to boot. Developed by u/y3owk1n

Keyd - software key remapper I used to use

Mouseless - Original free mouse mode app I used. It is paid but a great app nonetheless as well as cross platform.

wl-kbptr - opencv based hint mode. free and open source (wayland)

warped - don't know much about this one but have seen it suggested in the past

Hello, it's my first post here despite following this subreddit for a while, and what better way to introduce myself than with a weird question, I thought.

I found a practically pristine Advantage 360 Pro in a local second-hand shop for the equivalent of $315 USD. I wasn't planning on switching to split, ortholinear or ergomech keyboards anytime soon (and definitely not at once) but it looked so cool and, upon checking what they normally sell for where I live (easily between $800 and $1,000+ USD) I knew it was too great a deal to pass up.

Now for the weird part: I want to design my own magnetic palm rests (just flat protective material, no actual cushioning).

Would anybody who owns a pair of Advantage 360/360 Pro palm rests be willing to do me a favour, please?

I need a photo of one of them on an A4 sheet (fully in frame, with a bit of space between the paper and the image borders), taken from above and exactly perpendicular to your desk so that the base of the palm rest is not distorted and the paper remains rectangular. I will then use the relative dimensions of the two to trace a 1:1 silhouette of it to use for my project.

If anybody could do that for me, I would be very grateful.

Thank you very much and I hope to learn lots and make new acquaintances here!