I’ve been poking through the EmbeddedController repository on the Framework GitHub page to see how the keyboard operates to send data for key presses. From the best I can tell, the code eventually calls out to a method that sends the key press along to the host to read it and do whatever the key press specifies. I use a Corne with home row modifiers because it uses QMK and would love to have home row modifiers on my 13 as well. Has anyone taken a crack at making a custom keyboard firmware that hijacks that signal to correctly send out something like “Alt” if a key is held for a period of time? I see some branches that have a board directory but I didn’t see anyone who was trying home row modifiers.
Are you on Linux by chance?
KMonad offers muti-use keys with things like hold, tap-hold, multi-tap, github.com/kmonad/kmonad/tree/master#multi-use-and-multi-tap-buttons. I would hope there is way to get similar on Windows, but I wouldn’t know where to find it.
I am on Linux and I actually saw a post on here that mentioned kmonad as a set up. I’ll probably give it a test here soon but I also like rolling my own solutions when possible and would love to explore the firmware more so I could maybe help contribute in the future so I want to try implementing this through the firmware Framework has published first.
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