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I have an Unicomp but right now use a Pok3r to save desk space. Both are fine mechanical keyboards. I like the programmability of the Pok3r.

Unfortunately, I've realized that I really want a tenkeyless. The Unicomp is too large and the Pok3r too small. Does anybody know an affordable mechanical tenkeyless where Capslock and Ctrl is or can be switched in the hardware?

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I went with a Filco Ninja Majestouch TKL about four years ago and I’ve loved it. I needed ten keyless because my new under desk keyboard/mouse tray setup wasn’t really wide enough for a super wide keyboard.

You can choose the switch type you want to run with it as well, I’ve been running Cherry MX Blues, I think Black, Brown, and Red are also offered.

It’s a Windows keyboard so I swapped some keycaps and did some OS rebinding for Mac but I’ve loved it. I don’t know if they offer a Mac version yet or not.

It wasn’t cheap, but it wasn’t as expensive as my Das Keyboard I was moving from- which I had to replace after two years as it was fritzing out and the USB hub in it stopped working.

Here’s a link to a review I just found of it as it gives more detail. The reviewed version isn’t TKL though.

https://www.samkear.com/hardware/filco-majestouch-2-ninja-me...

Check out the Happy Hacking keyboard [0]. It's got a great layout - Ctrl to the left of A. They're really well made in Japan. The Classic model isn't super expensive, I wouldn't pay extra for the "Professional".

[0] https://www.hhkeyboard.com/uk/products/classic/

HHKB is a great keyboard (it's my personal choice of keyboard too, I love the Unix layout), but it's a 60% keyboard not a Ten Keyless, it sounds like the GP has a need for function keys.

Yep, function keys and mostly also the arrow keys. A full keyboard is too large but I need the extra arrow keys. (Ironically, I work in Emacs most of the time but I need the arrow keys in other applications.)

I just noticed that they've taken the arrow keys off the HHKB! It always had an inverted T.

The japanese layout HHKB does have arrow keys, but the original (QWERTY) design never had them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/36n5cl...

Look for kmonad on GitHub - it's not hardware, but works well on (at least) linux, where I am using it.

leopold fc750r, you can swap caps/left ctrl with the dip switches

That looks perfect! Exactly what I need. Thanks!

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