A new keyboard, and a new setup. (Logi POP Keys review)
Welcome back, a while ago I have talked about how I will start writing (or blogging) in Turkish when I get my hands on my Turkish keyboard. This keyboard is from the times of me buying an iPad and then needing a keyboard and a mouse.
I came back to Ankara now, which is where my original setup lies. I made some quick adjustments, including my Linux (except dwm. I am not going to patch a new multi-monitor fix or something out of the blue. Idc.).
That keyboard&mouse combo turns out to be Logitech POP Keys with a mouse from the same product line. I am not going to lie, even though I got back my keyboard, I am still writing this blog post on my laptop's keyboard, but from another monitor, which we will be mentioning in a quick second.
Turning back to the keyboard, I like it. Kinda. Well, honestly, it sucks. A big part of why is the keyboard's buttons or "key caps" are rounded. When I say you they are rounded, what I truly mean is that they are circles.
Not only are they hard to press, and really easy to mispress a key basically because they are too damn small, they are also mechanical. Which means fun noises. To be fair though, This could also be happening because I got the Turkish version which has more keys overall.
That being said, they are compact and now I don't have to bring a laptop with me every time I want to write outside my desk. I will, however, have the need of carrying this insanely thick and probably fragile thing with me, weighing as much as my iPad. I have also found out the key caps on this keyboard are easily switchable so if I want to use another keyboard layout (which I won't, because most of them are optimized for English speakers who only write in one language) I probably can.
The keyboard also has an "emoji" and an "emoji selector" mode. Like always, in Logitech fashion, this isn't being supported in Linux. Yes, you can use pre-defined four keys for their corresponding emojis, but emoji selector is not working. At least not in Gnome. I am 95% sure that I can bind that key to a rofi script which would be an emoji selector but if I would go that far, why would I even bother with emojis? They can be really useful as macro keys probably.
My new setup
Right now, I have two monitors. One of them is 27" unfortunately 60 hertz 16:9 ThinkVision, and the other one is my beautiful 21" HiDPI 240 hertz 16:10 Asus Laptop monitor. They are stacked on top of each other like this:
Now, of course, in the true fashion of Linux, both DWM and Gnome with Pop shell are having issues with multiple monitors. And somehow, Brave decided to mess up with the rendering engine of their own browser if I use it on the 2nd one and tile it. LOL. HOW FUN :cries:
I don't have many things to show here because this is how I will work for a long time, but one thing I want to say is, when I boot my computer with the second monitor, Vanguard (yes, this shitty anti-cheat of a shitty game) throws errors of how safe-boot check is failed even though it is active.
For this specific reason, I always loved minimalist and simple setups rather than complex ones like this unless I am in an Apple ecosystem where overpriced and only working with apple products exist. Mind you, just getting an additional 27" of a working space will cost me hours (probably days) to set up - just to get rid of the bugs, that is. Completely configuring it will take up weeks.
This was a quick small peak of what my setup looked like, but this is not the planned post that I should've posted today. A new post (probably written on an iPad for the first time) will be coming soon.
Anyhow, thanks for reading me, and see you next time.