Today, I discovered that mouse actions in Via macros are actually supported! But a bug in Via’s GUI makes it impossible to enter them… So how is it possible? By using the Via clone. And the mouse actions actually work …

Mouse actions are actually supported in Via macros, just not in Via’s GUI Read more »

The short version: It is possible to change the number of Via and Vial macros and change the space for them to be essentially unlimited. Unfortunately, there are many different ways of achieving it, depending on the particular keyboard, the …

Overcoming limitations for macros on Keychron keyboards Read more »

This was written as it happened (though not necessarily in the same order) when I was new to ZMK, on day 1 of getting the Keychron B6 Pro. Some pros: Independence of a web service. More permanent configuration of the …

Customising the ZMK-based Keychron B6 Pro keyboard without the Via clone Read more »

The short version: A wireless QMK-based Keychron keyboard can provide the information about the battery state, e.g. “81%”, to the operating system, just like, for example, a wireless computer mouse. Though the operating system may have to be configured for …

The battery state of a wireless Keychron QMK-based keyboard can be displayed in the operating system Read more »

Version 1.93 (August 2024 release, received 2024-09-05) fixed a problem with very slow (minutes instead of seconds) Git operations in Visual Studio Code. This problem was introduced with a recent release, probably the previous release one month earlier, 1.92 (July …

Git operations in Visual Studio Code are no longer slow (August 2024) Read more »