OCZ Alchemy Elixir Keyboard

[Ex-Cyber]

Are you German? Cherry keyboards are not easy to get outside of Germany, even in Finland or Belgium it's a special order, and I don't think you can get them at all in the US.

It appears that Digi-Key stocks some Cherry keyboards, although their website is not very suitable for browsing such things.

[MetalheadGautham]

it comfortable to the hand ?

[december]

yes, I am and I'm surprised about the availability of the keyboards outside germany. I just read that a german company bought Cherry this month from an american company. I assumed that their home market is also U.S.

If not it's a pity - I'm very content with mine.
But you're right, I configured the audio keys to control amarok with KDE control center.

Ah? I always thought Cherry was a German company. And it is a pity, because they are decent keyboards and we ought to promote our own products a bit better within Europe, as well as to the rest of the world ofcourse.

The keyboard section is almost as much Logitech these days as the sound card section is Creative. As an (unhealthy) matter of fact, my local PC shop sells only Creative sound cards.

[hochglanz]

Are you German? Cherry keyboards are not easy to get outside of Germany, even in Finland or Belgium it's a special order, and I don't think you can get them at all in the US.

yes, I am and I'm surprised about the availability of the keyboards outside germany. I just read that a german company bought Cherry this month from an american company. I assumed that their home market is also U.S.

If not it's a pity - I'm very content with mine.
But you're right, I configured the audio keys to control amarok with KDE control center.

[december]

Cherry offers very good quality keyboards which are very well supported under Linux (x.org). Furthermore they offers Linux tools for some keyboards for tweaking when there are many special keys.

The very useful special keys on the Marlin Desktop are out-of-the box linux supported.

Are you German? Cherry keyboards are not easy to get outside of Germany, even in Finland or Belgium it's a special order, and I don't think you can get them at all in the US.

Cherry keyboards are decent quality, I've got an elderly Cymotion Linux keyboard from them that has Tux instead of the Windows logo. I programmed the extra keys myself back then though, although now there's a definition for them in X for quite some time already.

KDE is much more flexible with special key bindings than Gnome; it's hard to get a maximum of functionality out of multimedia keys in Gnome the last time I checked.

[hochglanz]

Good keyboards comes from Cherry

Cherry offers very good quality keyboards which are very well supported under Linux (x.org). Furthermore they offers Linux tools for some keyboards for tweaking when there are many special keys.

The very useful special keys on the Marlin Desktop are out-of-the box linux supported.

[Louise]

Can anyone tell me, why very close to all new keyboards have the Return key shaped like

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and not like

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or even
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which would make sense, as it then have the shape of the symbol.

This is really a big mystery to me...

[december]

No, as mentioned in the article, they didn't show up in xev and they also didn't showing up in dmesg.

Does the kernel recognise the scan codes? I seem to remember I had to add some codes with setkeycodes to make my keyboard work.

Check setkeycodes(8) and showkey(1).

[Michael]

Couldn't you map the non working keys yourself?
Did they show up in xev or dmesg or didn't the kernel recognize them?

No, as mentioned in the article, they didn't show up in xev and they also didn't showing up in dmesg.

[Nille_kungen]

Couldn't you map the non working keys yourself?
Did they show up in xev or dmesg or didn't the kernel recognize them?