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TheKinesis Advantage2 KeyboardSmartSet feature lets you create any layout in real-time just by pressing keys, and also lets you edit and share layouts, and they are plain text files.
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Switch Layout
To switch to QWERTY layout, press progm+F3
To switch to Dvorak layout, press progm+F4
All models of Kinesis Advantage2 have both Qwerty and Dvorak layout builtin.
Switch to Mac Thumb Key Mode
Enable/Disable Key Sounds
There's a embedded speaker. When you press a key, it makes a pleasant “tick” sound for feedback. By default, it's on.
progm+F8 → Toggle key sounds. (When turning on, the scroll-lock light will flash 4 times. When turning off, it'll flash 2 times.)
Capslock On/Off Beep
When CapsLock is turn on, there's 2 beeps sound. When it's off, 1 beep. Similarly for Keypad, Num Lock, Scroll Lock.
You can turn off this beep feature. By default, it's on.
Press progm+Shift+F8 → Toggle special key on/off beep. (When turning on, the scroll-lock light will flash 4 times. When turning off, it'll flash 2 times.)
Remap Key
Suppose you want to make CapsLock do Ctrl.
Done. Now, pressing CapsLock will send Ctrl signal.
Do this to remap any key.
When you remap a key, key are based on their default meanings.So, you won't get into a confusing situation of recursive remaps.To make a key back to default, you can simply start remap and press that key twice.
Record Key Macro
Suppose you want to make F2 do Ctrl+c (copy).
Done. Now, pressing F2 will do Copy.
The triggering key can be a key chord. For example, you can makeCtrl+kdo↓, so that when holding control, right hand keys can become arrow keys.
Erase One Key Macro
Set Global Key Macro Playback Speed![]()
Show Current Keyboard Status
• progm+status → paste text of current keyboard status. You must be in a text editor. For example, Microsoft Notepad, Mac TextEdit, or any emacs, vim, etc.
Sample output
Disable/Enable Macro Playback
Reset Keyboard
Power User Mode
Note: if you have remapped Shift or Escape keys, you should press the remapped key.
You need to be in Power User Mode to create a layout or mount the flashmemory storage.
Create a Layout
steps to create a layout:
The newly created layout is a copy of the layout that was active at the time you created it. It includes all key remap and macro at the time. If you want to start fresh, do a Soft Reset first.
Press progm+status and you'll see the line “Current keyboard config file> x_dvorak.txt”.
Now, you can continue to create key remap or macro. They will be saved as part of the current layout.
Switch to a User Layout
• progm+a to switch and reload the variant “a” of the current active layout (“a_qwerty.txt” or “a_dvorak.txt”.).Similarly forprogm+bprogm+cetc.But you need to create it first.
When you switch to a layout, it will reload the corresponding config file stored in memory.
Open Flash Drive![]()
Now, goto your OS's file viewer, and you can see the drive icon.(You might need to wait a few seconds before it shows up. On my linux box, I wait 4 seconds for my OS to automatically popup a window showing the mounted drive.)The drive is named “KINESIS KB”.
The file path:
by default, there are these directories:
In the directory named “active”, you can open a layout file and edit it or email to friend.
The files“dvorak.txt”and“qwerty.txt” are the default.If you haven't created any key remap or macro, they are empty files.
If you have created layouts, you will see file named like these:
or
They are the layouts you created.
Edit Layout Config File
You can edit a layout config file directly and have keyboard reload it.
Just open the file in a text editor.
To reload the layout, just close the v-drive, by pressing progm+F1.
For example, here's my “d_dvorak.txt” file:
Here's the diagram of it:
switch to last app
Make End switch to last app.
Mac:
Microsoft Windows:
Shift Embedded Numberpad
Make End as shift for the embedded numberpad.
Make the Number Row Do SymbolsKey syntax
For the key syntax, best is to record a macro or remap keys. Then, when you open the layout file, you can see the key syntax used.
Letter keys are capitalized.
Number keys is itself.
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Most punctuation keys is itself.
Except
Modifier keys:
More special keys:
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Arrow keys:
Extra function keys not on keyboard:
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Keypad keys:
Multimedia keys:
Kinesis special keys:
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