[u-u] Keyboards...

[David Gilbert]

On 2017-10-13 11:46, Alex Lebedev wrote:

> Canada computers by college and spidana has minimal keyboards in the
> display. 
>
> BTW this conversation is well timed. I a. In need of a keyboard and
> considering mechanical (MX reds probably) with a numpad and no-ghost.
> I play some games that often involve significant number of keys
> pressed together. 
>

I have always used gaming keyboard from Logitech.  On the "multiple
keys" thing ... I think I number is between 8 and 10... but they also
have between 6 and 18 (maybe as many as 24?) programmable keys.  These
are key for games with annoying interfaces ... or just a lot of keys to
push.

But the "kicker" that is useful "all the time" is the little screen they
package with the keyboard.  By default, the only "app" I have on there
is "SirReal" ... which displays some graphs and whatnot... but it also
includes a key to kill a process that is wedging the UI.  This will even
often work if CTRL-ALT-DEL can't bring up the task manager.  In fact,
that's the whole point.

I used it more often back in win-7, but I'm still glad it's there in win-10.

Since Logitech seems to be phasing out the screens, I have been
wondering if an r-pi experiment is warrented, but I haven't got there yet.

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