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Re: new toy!

From: Christopher Allen <>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 15:42:48 -0800 (PST)

On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Pete Hardie wrote:

> I got my Twiddler2 yesterday, and spent some time playing with it on my
> desktop system.  Tres cool.  It will take some getting used to, though.
My technique was: Learn one chord at a time, and learn it well before
moving on. That way I had a solid reference for the new material I was
learning. Since, of course, one can't keyboard "live" right from the start
with this technique, I spent all of my time prcticing chording while
reading novels -- and only chording the chords I already solidly
knew. YMMV.

> Also, I did run into one problem on the desktop system - I was running XFree86,
> and using the Alt-Del-<KP>- to switch resolutions, and the Twiddler2 does not
> appear to be able to generate the keypad codes.  Does anyone have any evidence
> to the contrary?  It's not a big thing, but for those planning to use a wearable
> and hook it up to a desktop monitor at times, it might matter.

I had the same exact desire! Here's the deal: The Twiddler2 is able to be
programmed to produce custom make/break sequences. If this will do it, it
is probably the only way. I don't know much about make/break sequences,
though, and I also haven't gotten around to figuring out the codes for the
keypad. I think the best solution, though, would be for Handykey to
include keypad keys in its list of predefined keys (or whatever they're
called -- I don't have my manual handy), like return, backspace, tab,
etc., so you could just enter them into a normal chord program sequence.

For now, if you could figure out the correct make/break sequences for the
keypad keys, and posted it to the list, I'm sure all of the rest of the T2
owners would very much appreciate it.

There's a Linux command for displaying keycodes so you can find out what
the keypad keys are transmitting. (I.e. you run the program and start
hitting keys to see what they output to the keyboard port.) Does anyone
know what it is?

-Chris

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